VARIANTS OF GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME

While this is not a complete list of the many variations of GBS, the list below is among the most common:

• Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (AIDP)

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1169959-overview

http://www.webmd.com/brain/chronic-inflammatory-demyelinating-polyneuropathy#

• Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS)

http://www.gbs-cidp.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/MillerFisherSyndrome.pdf

• Acute Motor Axonal Neuropathy (AMAN)

http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=EN&Expert=98918

• Acute Motor Sensory Axonal Neuropathy (AMSAN)

http://thejns.org/doi/pdf/10.3171/2011.8.SPINE1159
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16138251

• Pharyngeal-Cervical-Brachial Variant

http://archneur.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=794604

• Acute Panautonomic Neuropathy

http://www.medlink.com/medlinkcontent.asp

• Bickerstaff’s Brainstem Encephalitis (BBE)

http://practicalneurology.com/2013/10/bickerstaffs-brainstem-encephalitis-a-rare-variant-of-the-anti-gq1b-antibody-syndrome/

• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)

http://www.aanem.org/Education/Patient-Resources/Disorders/Chronic-Inflammatory-Demyelinating-Polyradiculoneu.aspx


For additional information on GBS and its variants:

http://www.guillain-barre.co.uk/condition-exhaustive.php