Acute demyelinating polyneuropathy

What it means

Acute progressive areflexic weakness and mild sensory changes resulting from myelin breakdown and axonal degeneration.

This is a bundled term used to refer to the symptomatology associated with the Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Rare diseases that can present with this5

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

Part of the broader category