we present a woman referred with underlying non-hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl) masquerading clinically with guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) like syndrome. at first evaluation, chest ct-scan along with brain and whole spine mri were normal. electrodiagnostic studies were in favor of acute generalized polyradiculoneuropathy. laboratory evaluation revealed hypoglycorrhachia. she treated with plasmapheresi...

Infectious mononucleosis is a clinical syndrome characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy and pharyngitis. Neurologic complications of infectious mononucleosis, such as the development of Guillain-Barre syndrome, have been rarely reported and usually present late in the course of the disease. We describe a case of a 29 year old male with no significant past medical history who was diagnosed with ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculopathy characterized by progressive motor weakness, areflexia, and ascending paralysis. Guillain-Barré syndrome is extremely rare in pregnant patients, and there are no established guidelines for delivery or safest anesthetic methods. We report a Cesarean delivery in the case of a 32-year old woman who was diagnosed with ...

BACKGROUND Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is an acute monophasic demyelinating neuropathy characterized by progressive motor weakness of limbs with areflexia. AIM To study the clinical pattern and outcome of children with Guillain-Barre syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS It was a cross-sectional study conducted in a pediatric unit of tertiary care hospital over a period of 18 months. We assesse...

Perspectives Zika virus disease is caused by a ri-bonucleic acid (RNA) virus, which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. Around 80% of infections are asymptomatic. 1 Symptomatic infections are characterized by mild fever lasting from four to seven days, associated with maculopapular rash, arthralgia, conjunctivitis, muscle pain and headache. Until recently, Zika ...

Although generally a sporadic disease, a few cases of Guillain Barre syndrome clustered in families have been reported. We describe four siblings of a Pakistani family from a consanguineous marriage out of whom two developed definite GBS and two had probable GBS at different times. This suggests that there may be a genetic element in the pathogenesis of at least some forms of Guillain Barre syn...

Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a sleep-associated movement disorder with sensory and motor components that follows a chronic course. Acute development of RLS has rarely been reported. Our purpose was to raise awareness of the subject by describing a picture of acute RLS in a case of Guillain-Barre syndrome. Citation: Vildan Altunayoglu Cakmak., et al. “Restless Legs Syndrome Presenting As Acut...

Three patients with acute Guillain-Barré syndrome were treated early in the course of the disease with OKT3, an anti-T-cell monoclonal antibody. Each patient developed acute lymphopenia with specific depletion of T3-positive lymphocytes. Two patients had continued progression of clinical deficits for eight and 14 days. This suggests that T lymphocytes may not be essential for progression of Gui...

Bilateral facial nerve paralysis, as compared to unilateral palsyis an extremely rare presentation with serious aetiologies including post infectious like in Guillain-Barre syndrome, infectious including Lyme disease, Infectious Mononucleosis, autoimmune, malignancy (leukaemia) and traumas. We present a rare case of bilateral facial paralysis due to Guillain-Barré syndrome which was successfull...