Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T04:53:28.048Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Treatment of Fisher’s Variant of Guillain Barré Syndrome by Exchange Transfusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Allan T. Irvine  and
John Tibbles
Allan T. Irvine
Affiliation:
the Department of Paediatrics, Dalhousie University and the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
John Tibbles*
Affiliation:
the Department of Paediatrics, Dalhousie University and the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
*
I.W.K. Hospital for Children, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 3G9
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

A case of Fisher’s variant of Guillain Barré Syndrome is presented. Treatment with exchange transfusion coincided with clinical improvement. This is the first case of Fisher’s variant treated in this manner.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 49 - 50
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1981

References

Brettle, R.P., Gross, M., Legg, N.J., Lockwood, M., Pallis, C., (1978) Treatment of acute polyneuropathy by plasma exchange. Lancet ii, 1100.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cook, S.D., Downling, P.C., Murray, M.R., Whitaker, J.N., (1971) Circulating demyelinating factors in acute idiopathic polyneuropathy. Arch. Neurol. 24, 136–144.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fowler, H., Vulpe, M., Marks, G., Egolf, C., Dau, P.C. (1979) Recovery from chronic progressive polyneuropathy after treatment with plasma exchange and cyclophosphamide. Lancet ii, 1193.Google Scholar
Levy, R.L., Newkirk, R., Ochoa, J. (1979) Treating chronic relapsing Guillain Barré Syndrome by plasma exchange. Lancet 11, 259–260.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Server, A.C., Lefkowith, J., Braine, H., McKhann, G.M. (1979) Treatment of chronic relapsing inflammatory polyradiculopathy by plasma exchange. Ann. Neurol. 6, 258–260.CrossRefGoogle Scholar