Round 11: Tossup 3
Respiratory failure risk in patients with this disease can be scored using an EGRIS test. In this disease, regular monocyte counts and elevated protein levels manifest in one substance during albumino·cytologic dissociation. Charles Miller Fisher names a variant of this disease characterized by ataxia, areflexia, and ophthalmoplegia (“off-THAL-moh-PLEE-jee-ah”). Lipo·poly·saccharides displaying molecular mimicry to gangliosides propagate this disease following a (*) Campylobacter jejuni (“CAMP-ill-oh-BACK-tur jeh-JOO-nee”) infection. Sufferers of this autoimmune disease experience limb weakness before facial weakness in a symptom called ascending paralysis. Unlike multiple sclerosis, the myelin sheath of the peripheral nervous system is damaged in this disease. For 10 points, name this neuropathic disease named for two Frenchmen. ■END■
ANSWER: Guillain–Barré (“GEE-yawn bah-RAY”) syndrome [or GBS; accept Miller Fisher syndrome or MFS until “Miller” is read; accept Landry’s paralysis; accept acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy or AIDP]
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