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SUBMITTER: Dyck PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4621010 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Muscle & nerve 20150813 4
Intravenous immunoglobulin [IVIg], plasma exchange [PE], and corticosteroids are efficacious treatment in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [CIDP]. IVIg is effective in multifocal motor neuropathy [MMN]. NIS, NIS-weakness, sum scores of raw amplitudes of motor fiber (CMAPs) amplitudes, and Dyck/Rankin score provided reliable measures to detect and scale abnormality and reflect change; they are therefore ideal for office management of response-based immunotherapy (R-IRx) of CIDP. ...[more]