Efficacy of long-term prednisone therapy in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP): a retrospective cohort study.

Introduction: Patients with CIDP respond adequately to steroid therapy and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). However, few patients have access to IVIG in developing countries. Little information exists about the clinical response to steroid therapy in Latin American countries.

[Vulpian-Bernhardt syndrome. Its frequency and clinical and electrophysiological features in a tertiary care centre in Mexico].

Introduction: Vulpian-Bernhardt syndrome (VBS) is an atypical rare clinical phenotype of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that causes a significant delay in diagnosis, and thus it is important to recognise its clinical and electrophysiological features.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study. We reviewed the clinical records of patients diagnosed with ALS in the period from January to December 2019.

Superficial siderosis misdiagnosed as idiopathic bilateral neurosensorial deafness.

Superficial siderosis (SS) is a rare condition resulting from different sources of bleeding into the subpial space. The most common symptoms are: hypoacusia, ataxia, incontinence, dementia and parkinsonism. Since several neurodegenerative disorders may present with same clinical features, SS is often misdiagnosed.