Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the frequency, clinical spectrum and outcomes of pediatric guillain-Barré syndrome in India: A multicentric ambispective cohort study

Divyani Garg¹, Rajinder K Dhamija¹, Aditya Choudhary², Ritu Shree³, Sujit Kumar⁴, Priyanka Samal⁵, Abhishek Pathak⁶, Pamidimukkala Vijaya⁷, Yareeda Sireesha⁸, Sruthi S Nair⁹, Sanjay Sharma¹⁰, Soaham Desai¹¹, Human P Sinha¹², Ayush Agarwal¹³, Ashish Upadhyay¹³, MV Padma Srivastava¹³, Rohit Bhatia¹³, Awadh K Pandit¹³, Rajesh K Singh¹³, Alisha Reyaz¹³, PM Yogeesh¹³, Manish Salunkhe¹³, Vivek Lal³, Manish Modi³, Gagandeep Singh¹⁴, Monika Singla¹⁴, Samhita Panda¹⁵, Maya Gopalakrishnan¹⁵, Inder Puri¹⁶, Sudhir Sharma¹⁷, Bismay Kumar⁶, Prashant K Kushwaha¹², Harshadkumar Chovatiya¹¹, Teresa Ferreira¹⁸, Sanjeev K Bhoi¹⁹, Manish Bhartiya²⁰, Subhash Kaul²¹, Anuja Patil²¹, Neeharika L Mathukumalli⁸, Madhu Nagappa²², P Praveen Sharma²², Aneesh Basheer²³, Dileep Ramachandran²⁴, Neetha Balaram²⁴, Jospeh Sebastian²⁵, Venugopalan Y Vishnu¹³, on behalf of the GBS consortium^26
1 Department of Neurology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
² Department of Neurology, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
³ Department of Neurology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
⁴ Department of Neurology, Apollo Hospitals, Sheshadripuram, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
⁵ Kalinga Hospital Limited, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
⁶ Department of Neurology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
⁷ Department of Neurology, Lalitha Super Specialities Hospital Pvt. Ltd., Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
⁸ Department of Neurology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
⁹ Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
¹⁰ Department of Neurology, Ramakrishna Care Medical Sciences, Pvt Ltd, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
¹¹ Department of Neurology, Shree Krishna Hospital and Pramukhswami Medical College, Bhaikaka University, Karamsad, Anand, Gujarat, India
¹² Department of Neurology, NH MMI Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Raipur, Chattisgarh, India
¹³ Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
¹⁴ Department of Neurology, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
¹⁵ Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
¹⁶ Department of Neurology, Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
¹⁷ Department of Neurology, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
¹⁸ Department of Neurology, Goa Medical College, Goa, India
¹⁹ Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odissa, India
²⁰ Department of Neurology, Army Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India
²¹ Department of Neurology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Secunderabad, Telangana, India
²² Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
²³ Department of Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India
²⁴ Department of Neurology, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
²⁵ Department of Neurology, Caritas Hospital, Kottayam, Kerala, India

Correspondence Address:
Venugopalan Y Vishnu
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, RN 704, Seventh floor, CN Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/aian.aian_392_21