Significance of Brighton Criteria in the Early Diagnosis and Management of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare but severe autoimmune disease and the usage of the Brighton criteria can be a source of great help in resource-limited settings. It encompasses all ages. Late diagnosis of GBS can have a significant negative impact on the prognosis. The Brighton criteria are u...

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Autores principales: Ghazanfar, Haider, Qazi, Rabia, Ghazanfar, Ali, Iftekhar, Sania
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320636/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32607301
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8318
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description Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare but severe autoimmune disease and the usage of the Brighton criteria can be a source of great help in resource-limited settings. It encompasses all ages. Late diagnosis of GBS can have a significant negative impact on the prognosis. The Brighton criteria are used to assist in the diagnosis of GBS and help distinguish between low-risk and high-risk patients. In this article, we have discussed the challenges regarding the diagnosis of the GBS and the possible solutions that can help in the early diagnosis and management of GBS.
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spelling pubmed-73206362020-06-29 Significance of Brighton Criteria in the Early Diagnosis and Management of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Ghazanfar, Haider Qazi, Rabia Ghazanfar, Ali Iftekhar, Sania Cureus Internal Medicine Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare but severe autoimmune disease and the usage of the Brighton criteria can be a source of great help in resource-limited settings. It encompasses all ages. Late diagnosis of GBS can have a significant negative impact on the prognosis. The Brighton criteria are used to assist in the diagnosis of GBS and help distinguish between low-risk and high-risk patients. In this article, we have discussed the challenges regarding the diagnosis of the GBS and the possible solutions that can help in the early diagnosis and management of GBS. Cureus 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7320636/ /pubmed/32607301 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8318 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ghazanfar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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