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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system characterized by progressive weakness and impaired sensory function in the legs and arms. [1]
The most common cause is acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy AIDP, the most common form of Guillain–Barré syndrome [13] (although other causes include chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy) [14] Neuronopathy is the result of issues in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) neurons.
The demyelinating diseases of the peripheral nervous system include: [citation needed] Guillain–Barré syndrome and its chronic counterpart, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Anti-MAG peripheral neuropathy; Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease and its counterpart Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy
These symptoms are a result of severe muscular weakness and atrophy. In patients with demyelinating neuropathy, symptoms are due to slow nerve conduction velocities; however people with axonal degradation have average-to-normal nerve conduction velocities. [citation needed]
Peripheral neuropathy may be classified according to the number and distribution of nerves affected (mononeuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, or polyneuropathy), the type of nerve fiber predominantly affected (motor, sensory, autonomic), or the process affecting the nerves; e.g., inflammation (), compression (compression neuropathy), chemotherapy (chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy).
Inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDDs), sometimes called Idiopathic (IIDDs) due to the unknown etiology of some of them, are a heterogenous group of demyelinating diseases - conditions that cause damage to myelin, the protective sheath of nerve fibers - that occur against the background of an acute or chronic inflammatory process.
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