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- Title: Plasmapheresis Treatment in Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Potential Benefit over Intravenous Immunoglobulin (Case Study)
- Author : S.B. Buzzigoli, M. Genovesi & P. Lambelet
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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Acquired acute demyelinating peripheral polyneuropathy is a general classification of pathologies that affect the peripheral nervous system. They are characterised by an autoimmune process directed towards myelin. Clinically they are characterised by progressive weakness and mild sensory changes. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is often referred to as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). GBS includes acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, acute motor axonal neuropathy, acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy, Miller Fisher syndrome and acute pandysautonomia (1). GBS is the major cause of acute non-traumatic paralysis in healthy people and it is caused by autoimmune response to viral agents (influenza, coxsackie, Epstein-Barr virus or cytomegalovirus) or bacterial infective organisms (Campylobacter jejuni, Mycoplasma pneumoniae). GBS is clinically described as an ascending and progressive muscular weakness with areflexia, which progresses over a few days to a few weeks. A detailed history, the symptoms and the typical demyelinating electromyography pattern supports the diagnosis. Progressive involvement of respiratory muscles and autonomic instability coupled with a protracted and unpredictable recovery normally results in the need for intensive care unit management.