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Fatigue as the presenting symptom of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Author(s) -
Bissay Véronique,
Flamez Anja,
Schmedding Eric,
Ebinger Guy
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
muscle and nerve
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1097-4598
pISSN - 0148-639X
DOI - 10.1002/mus.21158
Subject(s) - chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy , medicine , polyneuropathy , differential diagnosis , chronic fatigue , polyradiculoneuropathy , demyelinating disease , disease , warning signs , sign (mathematics) , chronic fatigue syndrome , physical therapy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , pathology , pediatrics , immunology , guillain barre syndrome , antibody , mathematical analysis , mathematics , transport engineering , engineering
Different clinical presentations of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) have been described. Fatigue is generally considered to be a secondary sign and is not mentioned as a warning sign for the diagnosis. We present a patient with CIDP in whom fatigue remained the only symptom, hereby stressing the importance of adding this disease to the differential diagnosis of fatigue. Immunomodulatory treatment did not change the clinical course of the patient, but electrodiagnostic features improved substantially. Muscle Nerve, 2008