Defining chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy subtypes

Chronic inflammatory neuropathies include multifocal motor neuropathy, which is purely motor and often associated with complement-fixing antibodies to ganglioside GM1, paraproteinaemic demyelinating neuropathy associated with IgM paraprotein and antibodies to myelin-associated glycoprotein, and a heterogeneous group of conditions collected under the umbrella term chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Understanding the...