Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs

Apart from the usual differentials of transverse myelitis and cord compression, paraparetic GBS should be considered when sudden, flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs occurs, as prompt diagnosis and management can minimize sequel and unnecessary procedures. We do report a case wherein we managed a s...

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Autores principales: Luitel, Prajjwol, Neupane, Nischal, Adhikari, Niranjan, Paudel, Sujan, Gajurel, Bikram Prasad, Karn, Ragesh, Rajbhandari, Reema, Gautam, Niraj, Shrestha, Ashish, Ojha, Rajeev
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8405532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4767
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author Luitel, Prajjwol
Neupane, Nischal
Adhikari, Niranjan
Paudel, Sujan
Gajurel, Bikram Prasad
Karn, Ragesh
Rajbhandari, Reema
Gautam, Niraj
Shrestha, Ashish
Ojha, Rajeev
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Neupane, Nischal
Adhikari, Niranjan
Paudel, Sujan
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description Apart from the usual differentials of transverse myelitis and cord compression, paraparetic GBS should be considered when sudden, flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs occurs, as prompt diagnosis and management can minimize sequel and unnecessary procedures. We do report a case wherein we managed a similar situation without the use of an immunomodulatory therapy.
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spelling pubmed-84055322021-09-03 Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs Luitel, Prajjwol Neupane, Nischal Adhikari, Niranjan Paudel, Sujan Gajurel, Bikram Prasad Karn, Ragesh Rajbhandari, Reema Gautam, Niraj Shrestha, Ashish Ojha, Rajeev Clin Case Rep Case Report Apart from the usual differentials of transverse myelitis and cord compression, paraparetic GBS should be considered when sudden, flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs occurs, as prompt diagnosis and management can minimize sequel and unnecessary procedures. We do report a case wherein we managed a similar situation without the use of an immunomodulatory therapy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8405532/ /pubmed/34484783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4767 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
spellingShingle Case Report
Luitel, Prajjwol
Neupane, Nischal
Adhikari, Niranjan
Paudel, Sujan
Gajurel, Bikram Prasad
Karn, Ragesh
Rajbhandari, Reema
Gautam, Niraj
Shrestha, Ashish
Ojha, Rajeev
Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
title Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
title_full Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
title_fullStr Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
title_full_unstemmed Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
title_short Paraparetic Guillain‐Barre syndrome: An uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
title_sort paraparetic guillain‐barre syndrome: an uncommon diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis of the lower limbs
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8405532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34484783
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4767
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