Analysis index

0,5 ml serum. Testing of CSF does not have any advantage toward serum testing and is even less sensitive. This test is therefore not performed here.

negative

Small panel: Guillain-Barré-syndrome and variants; Miller-Fisher-syndrome; multifocal motoric neuropathy

Large panel: Guillain-Barré-Syndrom and variants (after C.-jejuni-infection, after CMV-infection), Miller-Fisher-syndrome, multifocal motoric neuropathy, paraproteinemic neuropathy

Small panel: anti-GQ1b, anti-GM1, anti-GD1b, subclasses IgG and IgM for each

 Ganglioside antibodies are of help in the diagnosis of variants of Guillain-Barré syndrome in differentiation to differential diagnosis (such as myasthenia gravis, diphtheria, botulism, spinal processes, motor neuron diseases) and when diagnosing multifocal motoric neuropathy (GM1-IgM-antibodies)

 Large panel: anti-GQ1b, anti-GM1, anti-GM2, anti-GM3, anti-GD1a, anti-GD1b, anti-GT1b and subclasses IgG and IgM for each

 Ganglioside antibodies are of help in the diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome in differentiation to differential diagnosis (such as myasthenia gravis, diphtheria, botulism, spinal processes, motor neuron diseases) and when diagnosing multifocal motoric neuropathy (GM1-IgM antibodies). In addition they replenish the diagnostics of IgM-paraproteinemic neuropathies (IgM antibodies against gangliosides GM1, GQ1b, GD1b, GM2, GD1a).