Abstract

GONZALEZ VIDAL, Dámaris et al. Guillain-Barré syndrome in the childhood. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.5, pp. 613-620. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and prospective study of 25 patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome, assisted in the Teaching Southern Children Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from January, 2006 to December, 2012, with the aim of identifying their clinical and epidemiological characteristics and to determine the usefulness of the treatment applied. Children younger than 5 years (40.0%), male sex and previous upper respiratory infection (both with 60.0%), as well as the muscular weakness and osteotendinous areflexia (76.0% in each case) prevailed. The inflammatory and acute desmyelinating polyrradiculoneuropathy was the most frequent clinical variant (72.0%). Either the treatment with intravenous human immunoglobulin as rehabilitation were beneficial and the mortality was low (4.0%)

Keywords : child; childhood; Guillain-Barré syndrome; inflammatory and acute desmyelinating polyrradiculoneuropathy; intravenous human immunoglobulin; secondary health care.

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