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Outcome in Severe Pediatric Guillain-Barre Syndrome after Immunotherapy or Supportive Care Neurol 52:1494-1497, Graf,W.D.,et al, 1999 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract We reviewed duration of illness in 26 children with severe pediatric Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) during two contiguous 8-year periods that represent a "non-treatment era" of supportive care alone or a "treatment era" of supportive care plu s either plasma exchange or intravenous immunoglobulin intervention. Our findings of similar recovery times in each treatment group suggest that immunotherapy in severe pediatric GBS may be less effective than in adult GBS, or effective only when given t o certain patients very early in the course of the illness.

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