title: Fisher/Gullain-Barré overlap syndrome in advanced AIDS.
abstract: Human immunodeficiency virus-associated Guillain-Barré syndrome typically occurs early in HIV infection before AIDS develops. We report a 56-year-old male AIDS patient, who developed overlapping Fisher/Guillain-Barré syndrome despite markedly decreased CD4 cell counts. Serum anti-GQ1b IgG antibody was positive. His condition improved rapidly after immunoglobulin treatment. This indicates that Fisher/Guillain-Barré syndrome may occur even in severely immunosuppressed patients and that anti-ganglioside antibody production is possibly mediated by a T cell-independent process.
authors: Department of Neurology, Asahi General Hospital, Chiba, Japan. hiragaa@yahoo.co.jp
authors: Akiyuki
authors: A
authors: Hiraga
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Kuwabara
authors: Akira
authors: A
authors: Nakamura
authors: Nobuhiro
authors: N
authors: Yuki
authors: Takamichi
authors: T
authors: Hattori
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Matsunaga
mesh_terms: D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019846:Miller Fisher Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology