title: Severe dysautonomic onset of Guillain-Barré syndrome with good recovery. A clinical and autonomic follow-up study.
abstract: A 39 year old man with acute panautonomic and mild somatic neuropathy had severe postural hypotension 1 week after onset. Porphyric neuropathy was excluded. The final diagnosis was Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). After 2 months he began to recover progressively and after 9 months he presented asymptomatic postural hypotension. We consider the hypothesis of a spectrum of clinico-pathological entities at one end of which lies GBS with autonomic signs and at the other acute pure dysautonomia. The site of the autonomic lesion, might have been in post-ganglionic sympathetic fibers and vagus nerve.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Clinica Neurologica, Università di Bologna.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cortelli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Contin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lugaresi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baruzzi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montagna
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001342:Autonomic Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011187:Posture