Clinical Profile, Functional Outcome, and Mortality of Guillain-Barre Syndrome: A Five-Year Tertiary Care Experience from Nepal

Table 1

Brighton criteria level of diagnostic certainty of Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Variables	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Bilateral and flaccid weakness of limbs	+	+	+	+/-
Decreased or absent deep tendon reflex in weak limbs	+	+	+	+/-
Monophasic course and time between onset-nadir 12 hours and 28 days	+	+	+	+/-
CSF cell count < 50/microliter	+	+	-	+/-
CSF protein concentration> normal value	+	+/-	-	+/-
NCS finding consistent with one of the subtypes of GBS	+	+/-	-	+/-
Absence of alternatives diagnosis for weakness	+	+	+	+

Abbreviations. CSF: cerebrospinal fluid, NCS: nerve conduction study, GBS: Guillain-Barre syndrome.
+: present, -: absent.