Abstract:Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute inflammatory neuropathy that is frequently triggered by an infectious illness. It is thought to be autoimmune in origin, but differs from other autoimmune diseases in being of male predominance and not showing a HLA-association.Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is a chronic inflammatory neuropathy, which shares some pathological features with GBS.We investigated the clinical features of GBS in an Australian cohort of subjects by performing a ret… Show more
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