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A novel homozygous mutation in the MTMR2 gene in two siblings with 'hypermyelinating neuropathy'
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Pure motor chronic inlammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
No full textWe describe four patients affected by chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in a pure motor form. Selective involvement of motor fibers was suggested by the absence of sensory symptoms, normal sensation at neurological examination and normal findings on electrophysiological testing of sensory fibres and sural nerve biopsy. The onset of the disease occurred at a young age (3-29 years) and the clinical course was relapsing-remitting. Over a follow-up period of 1.5-14 years, periodical clinical and electrophysiological examinations showed that selective involvement of motor fibers remained a constant feature. Electromyography and nerve conduction studies continued to show a purely demyelinating neuropathy without signs of axonal impairment. All patients were steroid-unresponsive, whereas they considerably improved after being treated with immunoglobulins. Two patients were treated with interferon alpha and showed a good response. In conclusion, the occurrence in our four patients of pure motor involvement over a long period of time during which several relapses occurred, suggests that pure motor CIDP may represent the result of a specific immunological process rather than of a random distribution of inflammation throughout peripheral nerves
Clinical and genetic heterogeneity of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
No full textAlthough clinical picture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a stereotypical one, resulting from combination of signs secondary to dysfunction of both upper motor neuron (UMN) and lower motor neuron (LMN), clinical heterogeneity is a consistent feature of the disease. Age of onset, relative mix of UMN and LMN signs, duration of the disease and association with other conditions are major factors contributing to variable clinical phenotypes. Genetically, familial forms of ALS are associated with a large number of pleiotropic genes whose mutations impair different biochemical pathways, resulting in overlapping clinical and pathological phenotypes. Over the last few years contribution of large- and low-effect genes to sporadic ALS is increasingly recognized
AL amyloid neuropathy mimicking a chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
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Tuberculous nephritis accompanying neuromyelitis optica: causal or coincidental association?
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Inherited neuropathies and deafness caused by a PMP22 point mutation: a case report and a review of the literature
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