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Acute Sensory-Motor Axonal Neuropathy in a 57-Year-Old Male Presenting With Paresthesia and Distal Muscle Weakness

Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GBS) is a relatively uncommon post-infectious, immune‐mediated neurologic disorder with an incidence of 0.5-2/100,000. It is usually preceded by an infection that evokes an immune response that cross-reacts with peripheral nerve components via molecular mimicry. The presenta...

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Autores principales: Latif, Azka, Kapoor, Vikas, Sood, Akshat, Thirumalareddy, Joseph, Tauseef, Abubakar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282578
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11301
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Sumario:Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GBS) is a relatively uncommon post-infectious, immune‐mediated neurologic disorder with an incidence of 0.5-2/100,000. It is usually preceded by an infection that evokes an immune response that cross-reacts with peripheral nerve components via molecular mimicry. The presentation of this disorder has several forms, including acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), acute motor-sensory axonal neuropathy (AMSAN), and Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS). The case we describe is of a 57-year-old male presenting with sensory features followed by symmetrical ascending paralysis and diagnosed with ASMAN, a recently described subtype of GBS, based on neurological and laboratory findings.