ABSTRACT
Five children with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), following a national oral polio vaccination campaign to eradicate disease, are reported. Clinical examination, cerebrospinal fluid and electromyographic findings conformed to the classical description of GBS. Four of them received therapeutic dose of intravenous immunoglobulin G. Two children succumbed to the disease. It was observed that the number of cases of GBS in children increased during the period of the oral polio vaccination campaign in Turkey, suggesting a causal relationship.
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Child, Preschool , Fatal Outcome , Female , Guillain-Barre Syndrome/etiology , Humans , Infant , Male , Mass Vaccination , Poliomyelitis/prevention & control , Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral/adverse effects , TurkeyABSTRACT
A 3 year and 6 month old girl with epilepsy associated with dural arteriovenous malformation (DAVM), diagnosed on the MRI, is presented to emphasise the importance of DAVM in the aetiology of childhood epilepsy.