Acute flaccid paralysis in children is a medical emergency that can progress to respiratory failure within hours or days, ...

We excluded studies of patients not receiving mechanical ventilation and those in paediatric populations. We did not find any study specifically assessing mechanical ventilation and outcomes in ...

About 5–10% of patients on mechanical ventilation will have persistent respiratory failure necessitating prolonged mechanical ventilation.1 This condition is part of the larger syndrome of chronic ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome is an uncommon paralysing illness, usually caused when the person's immune system attacks their own nerves, which consequently become inflamed. In 25% of people affected, the ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute, paralysing, inflammatory peripheral nerve disease. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is beneficial in other autoimmune diseases. This is an update of a ...

To elucidate the features of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome who show markedly rapid clinical recovery, clinical, serological, and electrophysiological data of 80 consecutive patients were ...

In the past decade, the world confronted several pandemics of emerging infectious diseases including Zika virus and most recently Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). One of ...