[Guillain-Barré polyradiculitis in acute viral hepatitis type B--case report]

A polyneuritis of the Guillain-Barré type developed in a 29 year-old female patient during the icteric stage of viral hepatitis B. The main symptoms were diffuse paresthesias and increasing motor weakness of the limbs, ending up in paralysis of the legs. The analysis of the CSF (albumin raised, cell count normal) and electroneurographic findings were diagnostically reaffirming. The patient was given prednisolone. All symptoms disappeared within two months.