Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?

Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is readily diagnosed when the presentation is that of ascending weakness and areflexia. Atypical presentations with preserved, and at times, brisk reflexes, can be a diagnostic dilemma. We describe a patient with GBS who presented with facial diplegia and hyperreflexia...

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Autores principales: Sethi, Nitin K, Torgovnick, Josh, Arsura, Edward, Johnston, Alissa, Buescher, Elizabeth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1852310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17425795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7221-2-9
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author Sethi, Nitin K
Torgovnick, Josh
Arsura, Edward
Johnston, Alissa
Buescher, Elizabeth
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Arsura, Edward
Johnston, Alissa
Buescher, Elizabeth
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description Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is readily diagnosed when the presentation is that of ascending weakness and areflexia. Atypical presentations with preserved, and at times, brisk reflexes, can be a diagnostic dilemma. We describe a patient with GBS who presented with facial diplegia and hyperreflexia on examination and discuss management options.
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spelling pubmed-18523102007-04-17 Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat? Sethi, Nitin K Torgovnick, Josh Arsura, Edward Johnston, Alissa Buescher, Elizabeth J Brachial Plex Peripher Nerve Inj Case Report Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is readily diagnosed when the presentation is that of ascending weakness and areflexia. Atypical presentations with preserved, and at times, brisk reflexes, can be a diagnostic dilemma. We describe a patient with GBS who presented with facial diplegia and hyperreflexia on examination and discuss management options. BioMed Central 2007-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC1852310/ /pubmed/17425795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7221-2-9 Text en Copyright © 2007 Sethi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sethi, Nitin K
Torgovnick, Josh
Arsura, Edward
Johnston, Alissa
Buescher, Elizabeth
Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
title Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
title_full Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
title_fullStr Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
title_full_unstemmed Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
title_short Facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild Guillain-Barre Syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
title_sort facial diplegia with hyperreflexia-a mild guillain-barre syndrome variant, to treat or not to treat?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1852310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17425795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7221-2-9
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