Dysimmune neuromuscular disorders: diagnostic challenges and new ways of management
Lalive, P.H.; Du Pasquier, R.A.; Chizzolini, C.; Kuntzer, T.
Revue Medicale Suisse 9(384): 934-939
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 1660-9379 PMID: 23717903 Document Number: 666159
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.