background and objectives: guillain-barre´ syndrome (gbs) is an acute-onset, monophasic, immune-mediated polyneuropathy that often follows an antecedent infection. special nutritional support has an important role in these patients. methods: a 6 years old girl with gbs was admitted to picu of dr. sheikh children hospital (mashhad, iran). chief compliance for hospitalization was inability to wal...

how to cite this article: salehiomran mr, nikkhah a, mahdavi m. prognosis of guillain-barré syndrome in children. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):38-41. abstract objective guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is an acute polyradiculoneuropathy characterized by progressive motor weakness of limbs and areflexia. in this study, our aim was to evaluate the clinical pattern and prognosis of childre...

Background: Diseases that cause acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) often progress rapidly, thus may cause life threatening complications, therefore, their diagnosis and cure are important. This study was carried out to investigate the causes of acute generalized weakness in children referred to Amirkola Children’s Hospital, in Babol, Iran. Methods: In this case series, the epidemiological causes of...

n-hexane neuropathy has been described after glue sniffing and industrial exposure. onset may be subacute and reminiscent of guillain-barre' syndrome. five patients (15-18 years old) presented with paresthesia, severe weakness of the extremities particularly lower extremities, as well as muscular atrophy, total areflexia and gait disturbances were admitted in hospital in march 2003. all of thes...

We discuss two of the most common of the acquired inflammatory neuropathies: Guillain-Barre syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, as well as their variants. We review their clinical presentation, electrophysiologic findings, and management, highlighting knowledge gained from the recent literature. Unfortunately, although treatments exist for both Guillain-Barre syndrom...

We report an unusual case of Guillain-Barre syndrome in a 36-year old gentleman, diagnosed based on clinical presentation, CSF analysis and nerve study tests findings, who presented to our department for elective cystoscopy and discovered at the day of surgery to have macular skin rash over the trunk and upper limbs, surgery was postponed. Then and after 12 hours he started to develop the class...

An 80-year-old woman presented with simultaneous increasing muscle weakness and nephrotic syndrome. A renal biopsy confirmed focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Her neurological diagnosis best fitted with a Guillain-Barre-like syndrome. There have been several cases of FSGS in combination with both conventional and atypical Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Our patient was treated with high...

Landry paralysis and the Guillain-Barre syndrome are not distinct entities and the differentiation, between these two diseases, is artificial (Lewy, 1945). Haymaker and Kernohan (I949) in their review on these diseases, supporting Lewy's view, proposed a new terminology of Landy-Guillain-Barre syndrome. Landry in I859 made the earliest description of the Guillain-Barre syndrome. Osler in I892 d...

Multiple cranial nerve dysfunction can occur with primary intracranial processes (neoplasm, basilarvertebral insufficiency, congenital defects, aneurysms, dural vein thrombosis, multiple sclerosis), myopathy or neuromuscular junction disorder (myasthenia gravis, botulism, orbital 'myositis', ocular myopathy), and as a manifestation of a more systemic disorder (sarcoidosis, endocrinopathy, conne...