Volume 27, Issue 134, April 2023

Pediatric Guillain-Barre Syndrome presenting with hyperreflexia and opsoclonus myoclonus

Shikha Muringathery Kakkat¹, Sham B Lohiya², Richa Chaudhary³, Keta Vagha², Jayant Vagha³

¹Post graduate student, Department of Paediatrics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, Maharashtra State, India
²Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, Maharashtra State, India
³Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha, Maharashtra State, India

ABSTRACT

Guillain-Barre Syndrome is an acute inflammatory polyneuropathy most commonly characterized by rapidly progressive, essentially symmetrical weakness with hyporeflexia or areflexia. The most common underlying subtypes of GB syndrome include Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (AIDP), Acute Motor Axonal Neuropathy (AMAN) and Acute Motor and Sensory Axonal Neuropathy (AMSAN). Association of hyperreflexia with GBS is a rare entity and seen very rarely in Indian population. Here we describe a patient with AMSAN/Miller Fisher variant of GB syndrome who presented with exaggerated reflexes.

Keywords: Guillain Barre Syndrome, hyperreflexia, Miller Fisher, neuropathy

Medical Science, 2023, 27, e195ms2846

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v27i134/e195ms2846

Published: 24 April 2023