Cryoglobulinemia presenting as acute polyneuropathy.

O 30: Peripheral Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation

Inflammatory neuropathies may be due to infection (with a specific casual agent identified) including Lyme disease, HIV, Leprosy, Herpes Zoster, Hepatitis B & C. The other group of are Autoimmune or possibly infectious (but with no specific causal infectious agent identified) including sarcoidosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome/ acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( AIDP), chronic in...

Human immunodeficiency virus seroconversion presenting with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: a case report

INTRODUCTION Acute Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection is associated with a range of neurological conditions. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare presentation; acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is the commonest form of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy has occasionally been reported in acute Immunodeficiency Virus infection but little data e...

Paradoxical Patellar Reflex As A Presenting Sign Of Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy.

We report a case of paradoxical patellar reflex as a presenting sign of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy.

POEMS syndrome: failure of newly suggested diagnostic criteria to anticipate the development of the syndrome.

POEMS syndrome is a unique clinical entity. Although it's a diagnosis of exclusion, it was previously described by the presence of several typical characteristics as paraproteinemia, polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, and skin changes. Recently, new criteria were proposed, and the presence of two major and one minor criterion was claimed to suffice for a diagnosis. Both methods consi...

Syphilis Presenting as an Acute Neurological Illness.