Evaluation of scales and measurement instruments in immune-mediated polyneuropathies

摘要: textabstractImmune-mediated neuropathies mainly include Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) (most common form: acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (AJDP)), chronic inflammatory (CIDP), neuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUSP), and multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) (1-11). Electrophysiological examination in these patients generally reveals features a polyneuropathy. These have become increasingly important clinical neurology because they are readily diagnosable and potentially treatable. Evidence has emerged from many papers the last decade to indicate that illnesses represent part continuum separated by their neuromuscular dysfunction pattern, time course response various treatments (Figure I; 1-11). However, distinction between is some aspect somewhat artificial. In the following, selected aspects diseases discussed with particular emphasis on clinical presentation outcome measures applied studies published from January 1988 January 1999 that included one disorders.