Abstract

One of the challenges faced by neurologists seeing patients with neuromuscular disease is distinguishing one form of immune-mediated neuropathy from another.1–3 This is more than an academic question because diagnosing a patient with Guillain-Barre syndrome vs acute-onset chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) has implications for treatment as well as prognosis. For example, are corticosteroids, arguably the most readily available and least costly therapy for chronic immune neuropathy, indicated or not? Consensus panels of experts often produce diagnostic criteria by mutual agreement, developing guidelines based on rigorous scientific evidence that may provide superior tools for accurate diagnosis and …

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