title: Prognosis of acute polyneuritis requiring artificial ventilation.
abstract: We compared two selected groups of patients with acute Guillain-Barré syndrome requiring artificial ventilation. Both groups were treated with conventional therapy, group A (n = 35) between 1970 and 1978, group B (n = 21) between 1979 and 1983. Neither plasmapheresis nor any other immunosuppressive treatment was applied. Significant differences were found favouring group B: There was a decline of mortality from about 60% to less than 10% (p less than 0.001) and a smaller number of severe complications due to improvement of supportive care.
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychiatric University Clinic, Köln, FRG.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krull
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schuchardt
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Haupt
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mewes
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D012121:Respiration, Artificial