Relapsing chronic low-dose corticosteroid-responsive multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block.

Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol

Department of Neurology, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Hospital de Santa Mara, Lisbon, Portugal.

Published: March 1997

Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) is a newly described disorder that might mimics the Motor Neuron Disease (MND). MMN is considered by some authors to be an entity distinct from Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), nevertheless because a pure-motor variant of CIDP is well recognized and CIDP can present Partial Motor Conduction Block (PMCB), several authors believe that MMN can be a variant of CIDP. We describe a 27-year old male with a relapsing chronic low-dose corticosteroid-responsive MMN with conduction block. Our case stresses that MMN includes a wide range of motor neuropathies with different immunological profiles conditioning distinct treatment strategies.

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