BACKGROUND In the province of Quebec, a population-based study of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) was conducted at the time of a mass immunization campaign against meningococcal disease, in 2001. METHODS The study population included residents aged 2 months to 20 years observed from November 1st, 2000 to December 31, 2002, representing 4,075,465 person-years of observation. GBS cases were ident...

Muscular hypertrophy is caused mainly due to myopathic disorder. But, it is also rarely produced by neurogenic disorder. A 74-year-old woman complained of right calf pain with hypertrophy for several years. Recent lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed central and lateral canal narrowing at the L4-L5 intervertebral space. Lower extremity MRI revealed fatty change of right medial h...

Fifty four patients with peripheral nerve syndromes were seen during a 15 month period in a population of about 1500 HIV infected patients at all stages of the disease. Distal symmetrical peripheral neuropathies were seen in 38 of the 54 patients, (11.5% of AIDS patients) and could be distinguished into two forms. The most common (n = 25) was a painful peripheral neuropathy during AIDS, which i...

Dr. Crésio Alves – Rua Plínio Moscoso 222 / 601 40157-190 Salvador BA Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculopathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated disorder for which specific clinical cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), electrophysiologic and histological criteria have been proposed. CIPD is an uncommon cause of childhood polyneuropathy. Descriptions of child...

Vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) is a rare, slowly progressing disease that often causes neuromuscular complications. Epidural block non-surgical treatment used in patients with radicular pain to deliver drugs the epidural space; it generally known be safe method, but can occasionally cause infection. Herein, we present rare case of VO severe complications developed patient who underwent lumbar tra...

Tuberculous meningoencephalitis (TM) is an acute, progressive form of tuberculosis (TB). The epidemiology, clinical signs, and diagnosis TB are well established, but several atypical forms tuberculous spinal arachnoiditis can be easily misdiagnosed. We report a rare case TM with cauda equina diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging electrodiagnostic study. A 26-year-old otherwise healthy male pa...

Novel Surgical Technique for Discogenic Cauda Equina Syndrome Transforaminal Intra Discal Access by Annulotomy outside Central Spinal Canal Sreedharan Namboothiri PE1*, Satishchandra Gore2 and Poorana Raja3 1Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon and Director of Spine Fellowships, Kovai Medical Centre and Hospitals, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641014, India 2Spine endoscopic surgeon Pune India 3Spine...

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 ...

We reported a 43-year-old woman who showed a Guillain-Barré like syndrome associated with acute renal failure (ARF) and thrombocytopenia following acute viral hepatitis A(HA). The clinical feature was acute progressive and of ascending symmetric paraparesis which developed 5 days after gastrointestinal infection. Neurologic examination showed flaccid paraparesis, areflexia in all extremities an...

A cauda equina syndrome in association with ankylosing spondylitis is well recorded. We report the occurrence of an upper limb radiculopathy which progressed to a cauda equina syndrome in association with ankylosing spondylitis.