CIDP with Concomitant Diseases (EFNS/PNS)
Carol L. Koski, M.D. and Richard A. Lewis, M.D., Principal Authors
Information adapted from Joint Task Force of the EFNS and the PNS, 2005
One of the following is present:
- Conditions in which, in some cases, the pathogenesis and pathology are thought to be the same as in CIDP
- Diabetes mellitus
- HIV infection
- Chronic active hepatitis
- IgG or IgA monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
- IgM monoclonal gammopathy without antibodies to myelin-associated glycoprotein
- Systemic lupus erythematosus or other connective tissue disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Thyroid disease
- Conditions in which the pathogenesis and pathology may be different from CIDP
- Borrelia burgdorferi infection (Lyme disease)
- IgM monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance with antibodies to myelin-associated glycoprotein*
- POEMS syndrome
- Osteosclerotic myeloma
- Others (vasculitis, hematological and non-hematological malignancies, including Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and Castleman's disease)
