<P> In those with severe weakness , prompt treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins or plasmapheresis , together with supportive care , will lead to good recovery in the majority . Recovery may take weeks to years . About a third have some permanent weakness . Globally death occurs in about 7.5 % of those affected . Guillain -- Barré syndrome is rare , at one or two cases per 100,000 people every year . Both sexes and all parts of the world have similar rates of disease . The syndrome is named after the French neurologists Georges Guillain and Jean Alexandre Barré , who described it with André Strohl in 1916 . </P>
<P> In those with severe weakness , prompt treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins or plasmapheresis , together with supportive care , will lead to good recovery in the majority . Recovery may take weeks to years . About a third have some permanent weakness . Globally death occurs in about 7.5 % of those affected . Guillain -- Barré syndrome is rare , at one or two cases per 100,000 people every year . Both sexes and all parts of the world have similar rates of disease . The syndrome is named after the French neurologists Georges Guillain and Jean Alexandre Barré , who described it with André Strohl in 1916 . </P>
where does the name guillain-barre syndrome come from
where does the name guillain-barre syndrome come from
named after the French neurologists Georges Guillain and Jean Alexandre Barré , who described it with André Strohl in 1916
named after the French neurologists Georges Guillain and Jean Alexandre Barré , who described it with André Strohl in 1916