Bilateral Facial Spasm Following Guillain–Barré Syndrome

Abstract

Background: We report a patient who developed lower facial muscle spasm at rest and bilateral facial synkinesis several months after treatment of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS); this finding, to our knowledge, is hitherto unreported. Phenomenology Shown: Bilateral synkinesis, facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral postparalytic facial syndrome. Educational Value: Aberrant regeneration of nerve fibers post GBS, resulting in facial muscles spasm at rest, bilateral synkinesis.

Keywords

• Facial spasm
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome
• Aberrant regeneration
• Synkinesis
• Neurology
• GBS