MYELOPATHY OR ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF GBS
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 58
Abstract
PRESENTATION OF CASE A 53-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department of ESI Hospital complaining of recent onset tingling and numbness in both of his legs about, which he described as feeling sleepy. The symptoms begin to progress in the descending manner and patient started complaining of tingling sensation in both of his hands, also his symptoms begin slowly within a week following history of fever 15 days back, there was no history of trauma, diabetes mellitus, tuberculosis and hypertention. Patient was a nonalcoholic nor had he ever complain of the current symptoms. Although, most patients develop a weakness, which tends to begin in the lower extremities due to demyelination of the peripheral nerves resulting in ascending paralysis and also a loss of cranial nerve function.8
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Nikhil Verma, Deepali Kaushik, Deepika Uikey
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