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Taiwan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
居楊-巴賀症候群;急性發炎性去髓鞘多發性神經病變;;Guillain-Barre syndrome;acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
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Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy: A Casereport, Ya-Fang Lee, Nai-Chiung Huang, Ta-Sen Wei
Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy: A Casereport, Ya-Fang Lee, Nai-Chiung Huang, Ta-Sen Wei
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), also known as Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS),the most common illness that causes acute and generalized paralyzing condition in the post-polio era, is diagnosed dependent on the base of clinical manifestations with supportive evidence of electrophysiologic study and cerebrospinal fluid examination. GBS often begins with the distal part of four limbs followed by a progressive course as ascending weakness and may even involve respiratory , facial or oropharyngeal muscles. Spinal fluid examination often reveals elevated protein concentration without associated increase in cells. Plasma exchange has become the gold standard of GBS treatment; in patients contraindicated for plasma …