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Table 5: Early CB and prognosis of 140 severe GBS cases helpful in classifying the severity of the illness. [14]
Prognosis With CB Without CB Total Electrophysiology recheck can be very meaningful
Good prognosis 46 54 100 to reveal change of patient’s condition, classification
Poor prognosis 15 25 40 alteration and severity of the nerve damage in time.
Total 61 79 140
χ = 0.840, P = 0.360. CB: conduction block; GBS: Gillan‑Barre syndrome
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axonal degeneration for AMAN in the early stage. Cite this article as: Wang YC, Feng GD, Wang J, Liu XD, Zhao G. Effect of
conduction block in classification and prognosis of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
CB and axonal degeneration are caused by immune- Neuroimmunol Neuroinflammation 2014;1(2):77-81.
mediated damage factors which attack axon membrane Source of Support: Nil. Conflict of Interest: No.
on the motor fiber. To a certain extent, CB is very Received: 12-05-2014; Accepted: 18-07-2014

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