Only anti-GM4 antibody positivity in a Chinese girl with overlapping MFS/GBS: a case report
Jing Chen,
Maoqiang Tian,
XiaoMei Shu
Abstract:Background
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), as the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide, is considered a part of a clinical spectrum in which discrete, complete, or incomplete forms of GBS and overlapping syndromes lie on the basis of their clinical features. The term overlapping Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS)/GBS is used when patients with MFS also suffer from progressive motor weakness of the limbs. Anti-ganglioside GQ1b has been specifically associated with MFS and ophthalmoplegi… Show more
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