Case Report
An Unusual Case of Recurrent Guillain-Barre Syndrome of a Different Subtype Five Years after Initial Diagnosis
Table 2
Nerve conduction/electromyography study on 1st and 2nd presentation of GBS.
| Presentation | Nerve | Distal motor latency (DML) ms | Compound muscle action potential amplitude (CMAP) mV |
response latency ms | Motor conduction velocity (MCV) m/s | Sensory nerve action potential amplitude uV | Onset latency ms | Peak latency ms |
| First | Right ulnar | 4.3 | 3.1 | No response | 49.0 | | | | Second | 3.4 | (i) at wrist: 2.1 (ii) above and below elbow: 1.5 | 43 | Not performed | | | |
| First
| Right tibial | 10.0 | 0.3 | No response | 32.2 | | | | Second | 7.0 | 0.8 | 56.2 | 47.3 | | | |
| First | Right median | 3.1 | 9.0 | 32.1 | 58.7 | | | | Second | 3.5 | 3.0 | 28.4 | 63.9 | | | |
| First | Left tibial | 5.9 | 1.1 | No response | 38.2 | | | | Second | 6.2 | 1.0 | 54.7 | 45.6 | | | |
| First | Right median | | | | | 91.3 | 2.7 | 3.6 | Second | | | | | 99.0 | 2.3 | 3.0 |
| First | Right ulnar | | | | | 53.0 | 2.1 | 3.2 | Second | | | | | 69.3 | 2.0 | 2.6 |
| First | Right radial | | | | | None | None | None | Second | | | | | 36.2 | 1.6 | 2.3 |
| First | Right sural | | | | | None | None | None | Second | | | | | 34.8 | 2.1 | 2.7 |
| First |
Repetitive nerve stimulation (RNS) of L tibial at a rate of 3 Hz revealed decrement of −3.2 and subsequent increment of 5.5 | Second | None |
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