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Questions discussed in this category



In patients presenting with likely statin-induced myopathy versus statin-induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy - how do you approach the decision re...

How do you counsel young adults with antibody-negative necrotizing myopathy on prognosis, risk of recurrence, and long-term monitoring/treatment?

For patients who present with elevated myoglobin in the setting of normal creatinine kinase and exercise intolerance, what work up process do you typi...

B5 deficiency can be seen in patients with burning feet syndrome, do you typically screen for this when assessing for neuropathy?

How do you decide if and when to send patients with AChR+ ocular myasthenia gravis for thymectomy?

I teach my students/residents that they should hardly ever get routine X-rays in patients presenting with radicular symptoms. MRI far better for seein...

How long do you wait (from onset of symptoms) to do a EMG/NCS in a patient with GBS?

Is there is a particular pattern of extraocular motility restriction in Miller Fisher syndrome? 

Is there a role for using a trial of pyridostigmine as a diagnostic aid in a patient with suspected (but not confirmed) myasthenia gravis?

Given the slow recovery of nerve damage, what would you expect to see on a repeat EMG after treatment? Continued denervation or just sequelae of past ...


Papers discussed in this category


Muscle & nerve, 2003-02

Muscle & nerve, 2012-06

J Clin Rheumatol, 2021 Sep 23

The New England journal of medicine, 2015-10-22

Rheumatol Int, 2019 Feb 18

Annals of neurology, 2013-11

Lancet Neurol, 2018 Mar 07

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2019-06-01

Continuum (Minneap Minn),

Brain : a journal of neurology, 2016-05

Scand J Rheumatol, 2018 May 18

Clin Neurophysiol Pract, 2018 Apr 05

Muscle Nerve, 2021 May 04

Journal of clinical neuromuscular disease, 2010-12

Lancet,

Lancet Neurol, 2021 Mar 17

Ann Neurol,

Neurology, 2021 Oct 11

Current rheumatology reports, 2015-10

Curr Opin Rheumatol,

Neurology, 2020 Nov 03

Ann Rheum Dis, 2017 Dec

Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2017-06-01

Autoimmun Rev, 2012 Jul 05