how to cite this article: talebian a, soltani b, talebian m. bilateral ptosis as the first presentation of guillain-barre syndrome. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):70-72. abstract objective guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is the most common cause of acute weakness in children. it has multiple variant forms with different presentations. a rare initial sign is ptosis. in this study, we pres...

A case report is presented of a 33-year-old woman who awoke with distal paresthesias, mild incoordination, and progressive weakness. Examination 3 days later demonstrated weakness of the extremities, which was greater in distal muscles than in proximal ones! mild facial weakness, distal vibratory loss, and areflexia. Electrodiagnostic studies provided evidence of an acquired demyelinating polyr...

This case report describes transfusion related acute lung injury with the use of intravenous immunoglobulin in a child with Guillain barre syndrome.

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...

neurological signs and symptoms are commonly associated with both hodgkin’s and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma and are mostly attributed to either direct lymphomatous involvement of the nervous system, either as a result of extension to the spinal cord or nerves, or due to infiltration by lymphoma cells and drug toxicity. guillain-barre syndrome and its variants have been reported very infrequently in ...

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