Clinical presentations and complications of guillain barre syndrome in Children Welfare Teaching Hospital

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Objective : to study the clinical presentations and complications in patients with Guillain Barre syndrome (GBS).

Methods : A retrospective study was done on 70 patients with GBS from different parts of Iraq, who were admitted to children Welfare Teaching Hospital in Medical City, Baghdad in the period between January 2002 to December 2006.

Results : of 70 patients with GBS, 40 (57.14 %) were males and 30 (42.86 %) were females, with a male to female ratio of 1.33 : 1.

Antecedent events were found in 44 patients (62.86 %), whereas 26 patients (37.14 %) had no history of antecedent events.

Conclusions : there is no specific pattern of motor weakness involvement and all cases show symmetrical muscle weakness.

Bulbar nerves involvement is the commonest cranial nerve involvements.

Autonomi nerves and respiratory muscles involvement are the main cause of death in GBS.