| Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Presenting as Features of Guillain-Barre Syndrome |
| Sung-Jin Kang, Jong Kuk Kim, Ji-Hyun Lee, and Sang-Woo Kim |
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| Copyright © 2008 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
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| ABSTRACT |
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By definition, the time to reach nadir in Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is within four weeks. This is in contrast to the chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), which progress for at least two months. However, CIDP can take a relapsing and remitting form and could mimic treatment related fluctuations of GBS (GBS-TRFs) especially during the early phase of disease. We report a patient with CIDP who initially presented with a rapidly progressive limb weakness mimicking GBS, but finally showed good recovery after long term corticosteroid therapy. |
| Key words:
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneurpathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome |
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