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Pseudo‐Guillain‐Barre Syndrome Due to “Whippet”‐Induced Myeloneuropathy
Author(s) -
Tatum William O.,
Bui Daniel D.,
Grant Edmund G.,
Murtagh Ryan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of neuroimaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1552-6569
pISSN - 1051-2284
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2009.00388.x
Subject(s) - guillain barre syndrome , medicine , acute motor axonal neuropathy , weakness , pathology , pediatrics , surgery
Guillain‐Barre syndrome (GBS) is the rubric encompassing highly variable phenotypic subgroups of acute, postinfectious, immune‐mediated peripheral neuropathy. The hallmark of GBS phenomenology is a rapidly progressive ascending lower extremity weakness. GBS taxonomy includes a motor and sensory axonal neuropathy (AMSAN). Nitrous oxide (NO) abuse may create a pattern of neurological dysfunction almost identical to subacute combined degeneration. We report an adult with myeloneuropathy due to NO abuse that mimicked the presenting features of the GBS‐subtype AMSAN.