Abstract
We describe a patient affected by chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) whose sural nerve biopsy revealed a marked edema of the myelin sheath. Since this change has been previously described in human peripheral nerves only in CIDP patients, we suggest that intramyelinic edema may have a role in the pathogenesis of demyelinating neuropathies.
Publication types
-
Case Reports
-
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
-
Biopsy
-
Chronic Disease
-
Demyelinating Diseases / complications
-
Demyelinating Diseases / drug therapy
-
Demyelinating Diseases / pathology*
-
Edema / complications
-
Edema / drug therapy
-
Edema / pathology*
-
Humans
-
Male
-
Middle Aged
-
Myelin Sheath / pathology*
-
Neuritis / complications
-
Neuritis / drug therapy
-
Neuritis / pathology*
-
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / complications
-
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / drug therapy
-
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / pathology*
-
Sural Nerve / pathology*