Monofocal motor neuropathy: Improvement with intravenous immunoglobulin.
Muscle Nerve
; 25(5): 674-678, 2002 May.
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ABSTRACT
Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a chronic, immune-mediate, peripheral myelinopathy. Inherent in its name, MMN implies involvement of two or more motor nerves. We report three patients with weakness and partial motor conduction block restricted to a single nerve and localized to sites that are not at risk for entrapment or compression injury. None of the patients had sensory involvement and all showed a favorable response to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. Based on these observations and reports of three additional patients, we believe that monofocal motor neuropathy is a partial form of MMN and should be treated as such.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doença dos Neurônios Motores
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Imunoglobulinas Intravenosas
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2002
Tipo de documento:
Article