I'm not a doctor ... work at cdc hence monitoring this list at the moment sitting in Rochester MN airport to go home, mother at Mayo in ICU, her GBS/vasculitis(still undecided) rough case w/ axonal nerve damage, kidney impairment, asceptic meningitis/stroke[s]/other enchephalitic (sp?) damage possible and ... etc. etc.
Relevance to this thread is the Mayo doctors reviewed all similar cases (one? two?) with combo GBS/axonal/IVIG damage and believe possible that those cases may have been misdiagnosis of vasculitis. I believe it is crucial that the background med notes not be lost in a 'structured/coded' information representation. Nothing wrong with a top level coded representation, but the ability to dig below that simplified world view is important. Heitzso
