Guillain-Barre Syndrome in PoT

[speadee]

For our Integrative Neurology final in Winter 2010, we each had to present a case study, and mine happened to be about Guillain-Barre syndrome.  As many of us know, the information about the disease in Prince of Tennis is wrong, and the mistakes were further confirmed as I worked on the presentation.

Comments

[daily_ruse]

Didn't Konomi issue a statement about being wrong about Yukimura's illness being Guillian-Barre? Or... did I misread something...?

[speadee]

I said in the entry, "Some sources did state that the producers had to change the disease because of the mistakes." I'm not sure if Konomi issued a statement or not.

[yukimura]

Nowadays it says he has some kind of autoimmune disease, not which one anymore.

[speadee]

I didn't know about that, but since the information was vague, it's better to keep it vague.

[archylas]

Interesting. I didn't know the exact illness that Yukimura contracted since I thought I missed it in the manga somewhere until now.

But since the symptoms weren't mentioned, could it be some other disease instead?

[yukimura]

I did research this topic some while ago.

I posted a comment a little bit below.

A tumor of the thyphus gland would explain all his symptoms and the operation.

[speadee]

Thanks! I saw your comment.

[cosmic_kath]

Yeah, Konomi admitted he made a mistake.

The only GBS-related operations I've heard of are done on feet, and in the anime the operation was on the abdominal cavity. But then again his illness was never actually named in the anime so it doesn't bother me all that much. It could have been anything.

They can't get psychics right, so we really shouldn't be shocked that they flunk medical science too XDDDDDD

[ice_flow]

HAHAHAHHAHAA!!!!! they didn't get history right either =P Tezuka = cause of extinction of dinosaurs? *amused*

[cosmic_kath]

OMG I JUST REALISED I WROTE PSYCHICS INSTEAD OF PHYSICS.
Maybe I could write for Konomi ;D

Tezuka wiping out the dinosaurs will never get old ♥

[ice_flow]

hahaha, I didn't even realize that, LOL!

The concept was funny...and then HOW they made him wipe them out was epically hilarious. He hit the ball so hard it came back from the furthest parts of the galaxy to slam into a bunch of dinosaurs running away from it...*shakes head* hahaha

[viherkyn]

Haa, thank you for this! I always wondered how the surgery fit into Yukimura's treatment.

[speadee]

I happened to do a class presentation on Guillain-Barre syndrome, so I decided to share the information with other PoT fans. As we know, the information in the series wasn't correct.

[yukimura]

Personally, I don't think he suffered from GBS

[speadee]

Thanks for the information! We went through myasthenia gravis in some of my classes, but not with this much detail. Myasthenia gravis makes fits more than Guillain-Barre syndrome.

[yukimura]

MG fits perfectly, if caused by a tumor. Then the operation would help and he'd feel better as soon as the operation scar has healed.

And it would explain, why he could walk again after 4 weeks.

Actually the thymus tumor / MG is exactly what Konomi had described, he was just too lazy to look it up.

[speadee]

It sounds like he got the disease names confused. They say that authors and artists should do research before creating stories.