Rare diseases: Russian economist Anatoly Chubais diagnosed with Guillain Barré syndrome
Rare diseases, Guillain Barré syndrome: ‘I can’t move, I can’t feel my hands and feet anymore’. This was told by Anatoly Chubais to his wife before being transferred from the Emerald Coast, where he was on holiday, to a European clinic where he is now hospitalised
The Russian economist, once close to President Vladimir Putin, has reportedly been diagnosed with Guillain Barré syndrome.
GUILLAIN BARRÉ SYNDROME
The syndrome is an autoimmune acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuritis.
It is a pathology affecting the peripheral nervous system, i.e. our nerves, due to an aberrant autoimmune response of our own immune system against our own nerves upon an insult that is normally given by an external virus and of which we are completely unaware.
It is indeed very unlikely, if not impossible, to be able to trace the precise aetiology of the triggering factor.
It is something that cannot be predicted.
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GUILLAIN BARRÈ SYNDROME, THE CURE
The disease can be cured.
Normally the response to treatment is more effective the earlier the diagnosis is made.
Thus, Guillain Barré syndrome generally emerges quite strikingly to the eye of the neurologist.
Diagnostic confirmation is obtained through the extraction of CSF from the cerebrospinal space, which is then subjected to analysis.
The finding of a certain alteration within the CSF indirectly allows us to arrive at the diagnosis, in addition to the specific set of symptoms, which is normally given by a significant muscular weakness of specific segments of the body, usually the limbs, and which is then combined with alterations in sensitivity.
THE CLINICAL SPECTRUM OF GUILLAIN BARRÈ SYNDROME:
The clinical spectrum can be very broad.
It ranges from paucisymptomatic forms, or at any rate forms with a low clinical impact, to rapidly progressing forms that may even lead to respiratory failure and death, and thus to the need to intubate the patient and assist him or her in a resuscitative setting.
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