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Multifocal axonal polyneuropathy in celiac disease.

Chin RL, Tseng VG, Green PH, Sander HW, Brannagan TH, Latov N

Peripheral Neuropathy Center, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10022, USA. ruc9002@med.cornell.edu

The authors report six patients with multifocal axonal polyneuropathy and the subsequent diagnosis of celiac disease (CD). Five patients did not improve or had only modest improvement following dietary intervention or immune therapies; one patient with marked weakness and mild electrodiagnostic findings had complete resolution of the neuropathy following immunomodulatory therapy. CD may be a cause of multifocal axonal polyneuropathy.

Published 27 June 2006 in Neurology, 66(12): 1923-5.
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