Open AccessA Case Report of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in an Eleven-Month Infant
Author(s) -
Rossela Vega-Castro,
Miguel García-Domínguez,
Edgardo Tostado-Morales,
Giordano PérezGaxiola
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-4163
pISSN - 1923-4155
DOI - 10.14740/jmc3638
Subject(s) - medicine , guillain barre syndrome , weakness , pediatrics , polyradiculoneuropathy , ataxia , incidence (geometry) , flaccid paralysis , paralysis , surgery , physics , psychiatry , optics
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute immune-mediated progressive predominantly motor symmetric polyradiculoneuropathy which causes demyelination and leads to weakness, ataxia and areflexia. There are a variety of forms of the syndrome; and despite being the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis in children, it has a low incidence under 18 years old, and it is even rarer in children less than 2 years of age. Very few cases have been reported under 12 months of age. We describe a case of an 11-month-old male infant presenting with weakness and inability to ambulate who was diagnosed with GBS.