A Case of Acute Motor Axonal Guillain-Barré Syndrome combined with Acute Cervical-Upper Thoracic Transverse Myelitis

급성 운동축삭성 길랑-바레 증후군과 동반된 급성 경수-상흉수 횡단성 척수염 1예

  • Lee, Dong-Kuck (Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu)
  • 이동국 (대구가톨릭대학교 의과대학 신경과학교실)
  • Published : 2001.07.30

Abstract

Guillain-$Barr{\acute{e}}$ syndrome(GBS) is a common demyelinating disease of the peripheral nervous system. But recently, the axonal types are also reported. Acute transverse myelitis(ATM) is also a common inflammatory disease of the spinal cord. Generally, it is difficult to identify the etiology of GBS and ATM. I guess the occurrence of the 2 diseases at once is hard to take the place. A 63-year-old woman showed an acute motor axonal GBS and a cervical-upper thoracic ATM occurring at the same time. She was treated by intravenous immunoglobulin and solumedrol therapy. Her sensory symptoms were improved rapidly but motor symptoms showed only mild improvement.

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