Study of clinical profile and prognosis in various subtypes of guillain barre syndrome patients
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Neurosciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
GuillainBarr syndrome is a post infective polyradiculoneuropathy having heterogenous clinical presentation and various subtypes like acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy acute motorsensory axonal neuropathy acute motor axonal neuropathy pure sensory variant and Miller Fisher syndrome A prospective study was carried out in patients with GuillainBarr syndrome admitted to the RNT Medical College attached Hospital to determine the electrophysiological subtypes and their prognosis in relation to various subtypes clinical features and treatment A total of 100 patients was enrolled In the final analysis there were 74 male and the mean age was 304 years Clinically 97 patients had quadriparesis 2 had paraparesis and one cases had bibrachial involvement Cranial nerves and respiratory involvement were seen in 25 and 24 cases respectively Electrophysiologically the most common type of GBS was AIDP 43 followed by AMAN 34 and AMSAN 23 The prognosis was assessed at one month and found that there was complete recovery in 32 cases and residual weakness in 63 cases Death occurred in 5 cases because of respiratory involvement
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Tarun Kumar Ralot, Sanjay Parmar, Rohitash Gujar, Shibsankar Sarkar, Hemlata Meghwal
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