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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-In-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2]
Diagnostic criteria
- Required
- Progressive, relatively symmetrical weakness of 2 or more limbs due to neuropathy
- Areflexia
- Disease course < 4 weeks
- Exclusion of other causes (see below)
- Supportive
- relatively symmetric weakness accompanied by numbness and/or tingling
- mild sensory involvement
- facial nerve or other cranial nerve involvement
- absence of fever
- typical CSF findings obtained from lumbar puncture
- electrophysiologic evidence of demyelination from electromyogram