Time Fre
Time Frequency of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Northwest
of Iran
Mehdi Farhoudi 1,
Hormoz Ayromlou 1, Amir Mohammad Bazzazi 2,
Farrokh Bakht Shadi 3, Samad EJ Golzari4,5, Kamyar
Ghabili 6,7, Marjan Dehdilani 8
1. Neurosciences Research Center, Tabriz University
of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
2. Department of Neurosurgery, Urmia University of
Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
3. Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of
Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
4. Cardiovascular Research Center, Tabriz
University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
5. Students’ Research Committee, Tabriz University
of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
6. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research
Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
7. Young Researchers Club, Tabriz Branch, Islamic
Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
8. Medical Education Research Center, Tabriz
University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract: Guillain-Barre
syndrome (GBS) is an immune mediated polyradiculoneuropathy usually proceeded
with respiratory and gastrointestinal infections 3 to 5 days prior to
neurologic signs appearance. It seems that GBS seasonally outbreaks in our
region. This study was aimed to evaluate seasonal relationship of clinical and
epidemiological findings of GBS in hospitalized patients in Imam Khomeini
hospital in the period of 1992-2004. One hundred and seventy five cases of
hospitalized patients diagnosed with GBS were studied considering following
factors: age, sex, events prior to the onset, seasonal incidence, clinical
patterns, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein, electrodiagnosis and mortality
rate in patients. The age distribution was in the range of 2-83 years with the
mean age of 38 years and male to female ratio was 1 to 2.3. Seasonal onset was
spring in 21.1% of the cases, summer in 26.6%, fall in 28% and winter in 24.6%.
There was no significant epidemic relation with the seasons of the year. The
mortality rate was 8.6% during admission time. There was no significant relation
between the season of onset of the disease and mortality rate.
[Farhoudi
M, Ayromlou H, Bazzazi AM, Shadi FB, Golzari SE, Ghabili K, Dehdilani M. Time
Frequency of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Northwest of Iran. Life Sci J 2013;10(1):223-225]
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Keywords: Guillain-Barre syndrome; seasonal incidence;
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