Despite improvement in intensive care, morbidity related to permanent motor deficit and mortality due to Guillain-Barre syndrome (GRS) remain high. Interferon-beta is tested as a possible therapy for ...GBS.
Devic disease with brainstem lesions Chalumeau-Lemoine, Ludivine; Chretien, Fabrice; Gaëlle Si Larbi, Anne ...
Archives of neurology (Chicago),
04/2006, Volume:
63, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Open access
We describe a patient who suffered from an unusually severe form of neuromyelitis optica with a hyperacute time-course evolution requiring mechanical ventilation within 3 days. The patient died after ...72 days and autopsy showed major spinal cord, optic nerve, and brainstem necrosis, and multifocal necrotic lesions on the cerebellum and cerebral white matter.
Diphtheritic neuropathy Créange, A; Meyrignac, C; Roualdes, B ...
Muscle & nerve,
December 1995, Volume:
18, Issue:
12
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
A 29-year-old Haitian man had a sore throat with a marked tonsillar exudate followed by the onset of increasingly blurred vision with swallowing difficulties and, then, a diffuse acute demyelinating ...neuropathy. Cerebrospinal fluid showed moderate pleiocytosis and elevated protein content. Serological testing for diphtheria, but not for tetanus and poliomyelitis, was markedly positive. Other tests including HIV1 and 2, HTLV1 and Lyme disease were negative. Diphtheritic neuropathy should be considered in the differential diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome in nonvaccinated patients.
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