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Guillain-Barré syndrome diagnostic criteria
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Diagnostic Criteria
Diagnostic Criteria
Required
- Progressive, relatively symmetrical weakness of 2 or more limbs due to neuropathy
- Areflexia
- Disease course < 4 weeks
- Exclusion of other causes (see below)
Supportive
- Relatively symmetric weakness accompanied by numbness and/or tingling
- Mild sensory involvement
- Facial nerve or other cranial nerve involvement
- Absence of fever
- Typical CSF findings obtained from lumbar puncture
- Electrophysiologic evidence of demyelination from electromyogram
References
References
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2]