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Guillain–Barré syndrome (also called "GBS") is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system. [3] Typically, both sides of the body are involved, and the initial symptoms are changes in sensation or pain often in the back along with muscle weakness, beginning in the feet and hands, often spreading to the arms and upper body. [3]
The next morning he had generalised aches, the day after sharp abdominal pain and a fever increasingly raged. Bedridden in pain, he gradually lost the ability to move, to the point, 8 days later of just flickering his eyes or twitch his hands. His cognition was not affected. The symptoms all fit with Guillain–Barré syndrome. His minimal ...
Guillain-Barré syndrome (pronounced gee-YAH-buh-RAY) is a rare autoimmune disorder that has been getting attention recently because of its potential connection with the coronavirus. In a letter ...
In 1976, an outbreak of the swine flu, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 at Fort Dix, New Jersey caused one death, hospitalized 13, and led to a mass immunization program.. After the program began, the vaccine was associated with an increase in reports of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), which can cause paralysis, respiratory arrest, and d
Jean Landry (1826–1865) Jean Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (10 October 1826 – October 1865) was a French physician and medical researcher.He is credited with discovering the paralytic disorder Guillain–Barré syndrome (also known as Landry's ascending paralysis, but commonly known for Georges Guillain and Jean Alexandre Barré, who did later research on it.)
In the case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), these attacks are waged on peripheral nerves (those found outside the brain and spinal column), damaging the protective coating around them which in ...
André Strohl in 1928. André Strohl (20 March 1887 – 10 March 1977) was a French physiologist who was a native of Poitiers.He is remembered for his role in the diagnosis of Guillain–Barré syndrome (sometimes called Guillain–Barré–Strohl syndrome), a form of areflexic paralysis which exhibits normal cell count but with an abnormal increase in spinal fluid protein.
Roosevelt's physicians never mentioned Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) in their communications concerning Roosevelt's case, indicating that they were not aware of it as a diagnostic possibility. [7]: 455 All reports before 1921 of what became known as GBS were by European physicians, in European journals. The result was that very few American ...