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Nerve Ultrasound Protocol to Detect Dysimmune Neuropathies
Published on: October 7, 2021
[Dysimmune neuromuscular disorders: diagnostic challenges and new ways of management]
P H Lalive1, R A Du Pasquier, C Chizzolini
1Unité de neuro-immunologie et sclérose en plaques, Service de neurologie, Département des neurosciences cliniques, HUG, Genève. patrice.lalive@hcuge.ch
Abstract:
This review describes some dysimmune neuromuscular disorders and their recent management: syndrome of peripheral nerve hyperexcitability (treatment of cramps, immunosuppressors); Guillain-Barré syndrome (new mechanisms and consensus treatment); chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (new indication for the use of pulse dexamethasone, new scores of activity); importance of subcutaneous immunoglobulin in multifocal motor neuropathy and of infusions of rituximab in myasthenia gravis; new entities in myositis and their treatment.
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