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  • Neurology
  • Neuroimmunology

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  • Chronic inflammatory axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP) is characterized by specific clinical, electrophysiological, and biopsy findings.
  • Immunotherapy-responding chronic axonal polyneuropathy (IR-CAP) is a subtype defined by diagnostic criteria and response to treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define and characterize immunotherapy-responding chronic axonal polyneuropathy (IR-CAP).
  • To explore the relationship between IR-CAP and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).

Main Methods:

  • Diagnosis of IR-CAP required chronic progressive polyneuropathy (>2 months), axonal neuropathy on electrophysiology without demyelination, and immunotherapy response.
  • Analysis of clinical features, spinal fluid protein, and sural nerve biopsies in 33 IR-CAP patients.

Main Results:

  • IR-CAP patients shared clinical features with CIDP, excluding the motor neuropathy subtype.
  • Elevated spinal fluid protein was observed in 78% of cases.
  • Inflammatory axonal neuropathy was confirmed in 45% of sural nerve biopsies.

Conclusions:

  • IR-CAP may represent an 'axonal CIDP' but requires further validation.
  • IR-CAP is proposed as a distinct entity, CIAP, recognized for its responsiveness to immunotherapy.
  • Diagnosing CIAP involves documenting inflammation via spinal fluid protein or nerve biopsy alongside established IR-CAP criteria.