Guillain-Barre syndrome in northwest Greece
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peer-reviewed
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Acta Neurol Scand
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Περιγραφή
OBJECTIVES: We present the epidemiological and clinical-laboratory features of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in northwest Greece over a 9.5-year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied all the patients with GBS who were admitted to our neurology inpatient service from January 1996 to May 2005 and compared them with previously published series. RESULTS: Forty-six patients were hospitalized during this period. The average crude incidence rate was 1.22/100,000 populations per year, and males were more susceptible than females. There was a spring clustering, as 52.17% presented the syndrome during spring. The axonal type of GBS was recorded in 13.04% of the patients. The most frequent presenting symptom was dysesthetic numbness (52.17%). A large number of patients (56.52%) had up to three times the elevation of liver function values that resolved in a few weeks. Most patients had an excellent recovery and no deaths were recorded. CONCLUSIONS: In our series, there was no difference in the incidence rate and subtypes of GBS but there was a significant seasonality with spring clustering. A transient elevation of transaminases of undetermined etiology was noted in more than a half of our patients. Although seven patients (15.21%) had significant neurologic sequelae, no deaths occurred.
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Λέξεις-κλειδιά
Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Aged, Disability Evaluation, Female, Greece/epidemiology, Guillain-Barre Syndrome/complications/*epidemiology/metabolism, Humans, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Seasons, Sex Distribution
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17295711
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1600-0404.2006.00731.x/asset/j.1600-0404.2006.00731.x.pdf?v=1&t=h0b2d1m3&s=f5b04baed8618670b21942c3ac70f6ca0cf64565
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1600-0404.2006.00731.x/asset/j.1600-0404.2006.00731.x.pdf?v=1&t=h0b2d1m3&s=f5b04baed8618670b21942c3ac70f6ca0cf64565
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en
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Γενική Περιγραφή / Σχόλια
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Σχολή Επιστημών Υγείας. Τμήμα Ιατρικής