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Two cases of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy complicated by idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Author(s) -
Furuyama Hiroyasu,
Chiba Susumu,
Inoue Kiyoharu,
Warabi Tateo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
neurology and clinical neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
0ISSN - 2049-4173
DOI - 10.1111/ncn3.169
Subject(s) - medicine , chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy , thrombocytopenic purpura , polyneuropathy , immunology , antibody , polyradiculoneuropathy , guillain barre syndrome , immune system
We report two patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy complicated by idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Both of the two diseases successfully responded to intravenous immunoglobulin infusion. A small number of similar patients have been previously reported. Because the immunological mechanism more evidently correlates to these patients than to the entire spectrum of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, they might form a subgroup unusually responsive to immunomodulating therapy.