A study on the clinical and electrodiagnostic profile of guillaine barre syndrome and its correlation with early predictors of prognosis in a tertiary care centre.
Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is an acute, autoimmune, frequently severe, polyradiculoneuropathy. GBS affects all ages and it has a slight male preponderance. It is a symmetrical, predominantly motor, flaccid and areflexic paralysis with a clinical progression of the disease usually for a period of 4 weeks.
The mean age group of our study population was 35.77 years. The respective age group related percentages are as follows. 38% of the patients were in the age group of 21-30 years, 28% of the patients in the age group of 31-40 years, 20% in 41-50 years, 8% in 51-60 years, 6% in 61-70 years. 66% of the patients were males and 34% of the patients were females.
GBS cases occurred in maximum number during our study period of July comprising 36%, August-30%, June-28%, September-6%. The average duration of hospital stay was 21.2 days.
22% of the patients had preceding events. RTI was present in 55% of the patients and AGE was present in 10% of the patients
