Severe Dysautonomic Onset of Guillain-Barré Syndrome with Good Recovery. A Clinical and Autonomic Follow-up Study

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Journal Ital J Neurol Sci

Specialty Neurology

Date 1990 Apr 1

PMID 2361852

Citations 3

Authors

P Cortelli

M Contin

A Lugaresi

A Baruzzi

P Montagna

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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.

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