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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-26
pubmed:abstractText
Fourteen patients with peripheral neuropathy and monoclonal IgG of undetermined significance are reported with a retrospective study of the clinical features, electrophysiologic and sural nerve biopsy findings. There were two groups. Five patients had a relapsing chronic sensorimotor polyneuropathy with clinical (5/5), electrophysiologic (4/5) and pathologic (5/5) features compatible with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies (CIDP). The nine others had a slowly progressive sensory (5/9) (SPNP) or sensorimotor (4/9) (SMPNP) axonal polyneuropathy. Four patients of the first group were treated with intravenous human immunoglobulin (400 mg/kg/day for five days) with significant clinical improvement. The motor conduction velocities and distal latencies of two of these patients improved following treatment, thus matching the clinical improvement. Our results on peripheral nerve biopsies confirm the differentiation of patients with CIDP from those with SMPNP and SPNP. There was no specific immunologic serologic reactivity in any of the cases.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1085-9489
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
139-48
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Biopsy, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Electromyography, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Histiocytes, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Immunoglobulin G, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Microscopy, Electron, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Nerve Fibers, Myelinated, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Neural Conduction, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating, pubmed-meshheading:10975722-Retrospective Studies
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Peripheral neuropathy associated with monoclonal IgG of undetermined significance: clinical, electrophysiologic, pathologic and therapeutic study of 14 cases.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Bordeaux II University, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't