Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy

Acute inflammatoiy demyelinating polyneuropathy is a common cause of reversible paralysis. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AIDP), the classic form of the Guillain-Barre syndrome, often begins a week or two after recovery from cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus or Mycoplasma infection. Patients present with rapidly advancing symmetrical weakness, loss of deep tendon reflexes, often with distal numbness, and limb or back pain. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein concentration is elevated, but in most cases there is little or no increase in number of inflammatory cells in the CSF. This albumino-cytologic dissociation contrasts with the elevation of both... 

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