Tag: Nerve Conduction Velocity

• Diagnostic Pathways for Idiopathic Neuropathy

  

  “You have a serious illness of an undisclosed nature.”

  Dan

  June 7, 2023

  Research

  AIDP, alcohol, Amiodarone, B1, B12, B6, biopsy, Cancer, Celiac, Check POint Inhibitors, chemotherapy, CIDP, diabetes, Electrodiagnostics, GBS, Hepatitis C, HIV, hypothyroidism, Idiopathic Neuropathy, INH, kidney, Lead, Lyme Disease, MAG, mercury, MMN, muscle, nerve, Nerve Conduction Velocity, Norman Latov, POEMS, Sarcoid, Sjogren, small fiber

• CIDP and CMT

  

  I’ve been interested in the diseases and disorders that can be mis-diagnosed as CMT (or vice versa) for a while. One that has come up a lot is Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). CIDP can look like CMT cases where demyelination is prominent, usually Type 1/1A. In one international study of more than 1,100 people…

  Dan

  June 7, 2023

  Research

  CIDP, CMAP, CMT1A, F Wave, Nerve Conduction Velocity

• New Genetic Diagnostics for CMT

  

  Here’s an informative article from the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation (HNF) about current best practices in genetic diagnosis of CMT. A lot of examples are given of people with less common subtypes who waited a long time to get properly diagnosed — sometimes after many years of wrong diagnoses or none at all. Today the best…

  Dan

  February 21, 2020

  News, Research

  CMT1, CMT2, HNF, Nerve Conduction Velocity, Whole Exome Screening