title: Guillain-Barré syndrome: 100 years on.
abstract: The Guillain-Barré syndrome is associated with acute polyradiculoneuritis for almost one century. Its spectrum has considerably been enlarged since its first description. It now includes pure motor or sensory syndromes, focal forms, demyelinating and axonal neurophysiological features that characterise excitability dysfunctions, and immunological differentiations. We can hope that this improved classification will facilitate development of treatment innovations for a condition that is still a life-threatening condition with a severe functional prognosis in a significant proportion of cases.
authors.affiliation: Service de neurologie, université Paris Est (EA4391), hôpital Henri-Mondor, avenue Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94010 Créteil, France. Electronic address: creange@univ-paris12.fr.
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authors.lastname: Créange
mesh_terms: D020275:Guillain-Barre Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis
keywords: Guillain-Barré syndrome; Life-threatening; Polyradiculoneuritis