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Landry Guillain-Barre-Strohl syndrome in pregnancy: case report. 1996

G B Amoah

Department of Medicine and Therapetutics, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.

Landry-Guillain-Barre-Strohl Syndrome (LGBS) is a rare occurrence in pregnancy with only 38 previously reported cases in the literature. A case of a 26 year old Ghanaian woman who presented at thirty weeks gestation with limb weakness, facial diplegia, dysarthria, dysphagia and CSF cytoalbuminic dissociation and who made complete recovery before delivery of a normal full term baby is described. This is the thirty ninth reported case of LGBS in pregnancy in the literature and the first reported case from Black Africa. It is the third reported case of full recovery before delivery. The aetiology, diagnosis and management of LGBS is briefly reviewed.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D011129	Polyradiculoneuropathy	Diseases characterized by injury or dysfunction involving multiple peripheral nerves and nerve roots. The process may primarily affect myelin or nerve axons. Two of the more common demyelinating forms are acute inflammatory polyradiculopathy (GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME) and POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING. Polyradiculoneuritis refers to inflammation of multiple peripheral nerves and spinal nerve roots.	Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease, Peripheral,Demyelinating Autoimmune Disease, Peripheral,Demyelinating Disease, Peripheral Autoimmune,Peripheral Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease,Polyradiculoneuritis,Polyradiculoneuritides,Polyradiculoneuropathies
D011247	Pregnancy	The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.	Gestation,Pregnancies
D011248	Pregnancy Complications	Conditions or pathological processes associated with pregnancy. They can occur during or after pregnancy, and range from minor discomforts to serious diseases that require medical interventions. They include diseases in pregnant females, and pregnancies in females with diseases.	Adverse Birth Outcomes,Complications, Pregnancy,Adverse Birth Outcome,Birth Outcome, Adverse,Complication, Pregnancy,Outcome, Adverse Birth,Pregnancy Complication
D011263	Pregnancy Trimester, Third	The last third of a human PREGNANCY, from the beginning of the 29th through the 42nd completed week (197 to 294 days) of gestation.	Pregnancy, Third Trimester,Trimester, Third,Last Trimester,Last Trimesters,Pregnancies, Third Trimester,Pregnancy Trimesters, Third,Third Pregnancy Trimester,Third Pregnancy Trimesters,Third Trimester,Third Trimester Pregnancies,Third Trimester Pregnancy,Third Trimesters,Trimester, Last,Trimesters, Last,Trimesters, Third
D005260	Female		Females
D005869	Ghana	A republic in western Africa, south of BURKINA FASO and west of TOGO. Its capital is Accra.	Gold Coast,Republic of Ghana
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults