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:

  1. 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
  2. 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)

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