Thursday, February 15, 2007

Sensory Guillian-Barre Syndrome

Oh SJ, LaGanke C, Claussen GC. Sensory Guillian Barre. Neurology 2001; 56:82-82. Describes eight patients collected with a sensory equivalent of classical GBS. These patients had acute onset of a sensory ascending neuropathy that peaked within 4 weeks, generally had an antecedent viral illness, areflexia, CSF albumen-cytologic dissociation, demyelination in at least two nerves, (esp MOTOR nerves), favorable outcome. 3 patients were treated with immunomodulatory treatments.

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