Juan Ignacio Castiglione, José Manuel Crespo, Mariana Bendersky, Facundo Oscar Silveira, Lucila Lecchini, María Belén Luis, Francisco Caiza Zambrano, Norberto Cotti, Conrado J Simison, Florencia Aguirre, María Agustina Piedrabuena, Ricardo Nicolás Alonso, Carolina Laura Azcona, Pablo Sebastian Sosa, Evangelina Maldonado, Francisco Varela, Mariela Bettini, Roberto D Rey, Luciana León Cejas, Marcelo Rugiero, Ricardo Reisin, Fabio Barroso
In the context of the global vaccination campaign against COVID-19, several cases of postvaccinal Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) were reported. Whether a causal relationship exists between these events has yet to be established. We investigated the clinical and electromyographic characteristics of patients who developed GBS after COVID-19 vaccination and compare these with findings in patients with GBS, without a history of recent vaccination. We included 91 cases between March 2020 and March 2022, treated at 10 referral hospitals of Buenos Aires, Argentina...
September 1, 2023: Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease