Clinical and Electrophysiological Profile of Guillain Barre Syndrome With a Comparative Study on utility of Asbury versus Brighton Criteria in diagnosis of Guillain Barre Syndrome: in a tertiary hospital in India

Gullain  Barre  syndrome(GBS)  is  a  devastating  illness  causing  acute  flaccid  paralysis  .  The  pathophysiology  and  treatment  responses  for  GBS  have  been  primarily studied  in  western populations.  Our  tertiary centre  has been treating   GBS  for  a long  time but  clinical  presentations,  immunological  profile  and  treatment  outcomes  are possibly  different  from   earlier  studies  in  other  populations. Also there is need to identify these patients of varied presentation of GBS at the earliest as earlier standard treatment initiation will affect the course of illness. Hence  to  study  the   varied  presentations and outcomes  this  study  has been  proposed. We  also  propose  to  compare  the  usefulness  of  Asbury  criteria  with  the  newly  introduced   brighton  criteria  to  compare  their  usefulness  in  early  and  accurate  diagnosis  of  GBS as these criteria have been validated in the western population but not in the Indian population.