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Revision as of 14:15, 21 November 2012
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-In-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2]
Overview
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute, autoimmune, polyradiculoneuropathy affecting the peripheral nervous system, usually triggered by an acute infectious process. It is included in the wider group of peripheral neuropathies.
Differential diagnosis
Complete Differential Diagnosis of the Causes of Encephalitis
(By organ system)
| Cardiovascular | No underlying causes |
| Chemical / poisoning | No underlying causes |
| Dermatologic | No underlying causes |
| Drug Side Effect | No underlying causes |
| Ear Nose Throat | No underlying causes |
| Endocrine | No underlying causes |
| Environmental | No underlying causes |
| Gastroenterologic | No underlying causes |
| Genetic | No underlying causes |
| Hematologic | Vasculitic Neuropathy |
| Iatrogenic | No underlying causes |
| Infectious Disease | Botulism, diphtheria, Lyme disease, poliomyelitis, CMV, paresis caused by West Nile fever |
| Musculoskeletal / Ortho | No underlying causes |
| Neurologic | Cauda Equina and Conus Medullaris Syndromes, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis, acute myelopathies with chronic back pain and sphincter dysfunction |
| Nutritional / Metabolic | Metabolic Myopathies, Nutritional Neuropathy, |
| Obstetric/Gynecologic | No underlying causes |
| Oncologic | No underlying causes |
| Opthalmologic | No underlying causes |
| Overdose / Toxicity | Heavy Metal Toxicity, poisonings with organophosphate, poison hemlock, thallium, or arsenic |
| Psychiatric | No underlying causes |
| Pulmonary | No underlying causes |
| Renal / Electrolyte | No underlying causes |
| Rheum / Immune / Allergy | |
| Sexual | No underlying causes |
| Trauma | No underlying causes |
| Urologic | No underlying causes |
| Miscellaneous | porphyria |