[Clinical course and treatment of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (Landry-Guillain-Barré syndrome)]

Abstract

Motor, sensitive and vegetative disorders were subjected to a clinical analysis in 40 adult patients with Landry-Guillain-Barre syndrome in the acute disease stage and during rehabilitation. Investigation of the cerebrospinal fluid and of the rate of the nervous impulses conduction in the peripheral nerves has demonstrated that in the majority of the patients, the clinical findings did not correlate with the laboratory ones. Early diagnosis and rational therapy with plasmapheresis and glucocorticoids ensured a favourable prognosis.