{"title":"Evaluation of Neuromuscular Provider Perceptions and Office Setup for Evaluating Patients With Disabilities.","authors":"Adeel S Zubair, John Paul Mikhaiel, Seth M Keller","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000483","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"201-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing FGFR-3 and TS-HDS Seropositive Small Fiber Neuropathy: Unique Patient Features, Symptoms, Laboratory, and Nerve Conduction Study Findings.","authors":"Peyton J Murin, Farid Khasiyev, Jasmina Profirovic, Margarita Fedorova, Jafar Kafaie","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000478","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000478","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Small fiber neuropathy presents a significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. To solve this challenge, efforts have been made to identify autoantibodies associated with this condition. Previous literature has often considered tri-sulfated heparin disaccharide (TS-HDS) and fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) as a singular seropositive group and/or focused primarily on symptomatic associations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>One hundred seventy-two small fiber neuropathy patients with a Washington University Sensory Neuropathy panel were selected for TS-HDS seropositivity, FGFR-3 seropositivity, and seronegative controls. Data were collected to on the demographic, symptomatic, and laboratory profiles of each subgroup.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Percent female (P = 0.0043), frequency of neuropathic pain symptoms (P = 0.0074), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (P = 0.0293), vitamin D (P < 0.0001), and vitamin B12 (P = 0.0033) differed between the groups. Skin biopsy was more frequently normal within both the FGFR-3 and the TS-HDS cohort (P = 0.0253).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>TS-HDS and FGFR-3 display a distinct phenotype from both controls and one another. Immunoglobulin M (IgM) against FGFR-3 and IgM against TS-HDS may be individually valuable markers for the development of distinct clinical phenotypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"171-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic Inflammatory Axonal Polyneuropathy: An Entity by Itself.","authors":"Ali Sreij, Raja Sawaya","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000494","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"205-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Epidemiology of COVID-19-Related Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the United States.","authors":"Aditya Sharma, Aditi Sharma, Ayman O Soubani","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000480","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Several neurological complications have been reported with COVID-19, including Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). We looked at incidence, baseline characteristics, and in-hospital outcomes of COVID-19-associated GBS in the United States.</p><p><strong>Study design and methods: </strong>We conducted a retrospective analysis using the US National Inpatient Sample database to identify hospitalizations for COVID-19 and GBS, using International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision, codes G610 and G650 for GBS and U071 for COVID-19. The codes used in this study are listed in Supplemental Digital Content 1 (see e Appendix, http://links.lww.com/JCND/A69).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 13,705 GBS admissions were recorded nationwide in 2020; of these, 1155 (8.43%) were associated with COVID-19. The frequency of GBS in COVID-19 admissions was 0.07%, compared with 0.08% in non-COVID-19 admissions (P = 0.8166). COVID-19 cohort with GBS had higher utilization of invasive mechanical ventilation (20.8% vs. 11.8%, P < 0.001) in comparison with COVID-19 cohort without GBS. GBS admissions with COVID-19 exhibited significantly higher inpatient mortality (12.2% vs. 3%, P < 0.001) compared with GBS admissions without COVID-19.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Our findings underscore GBS as a rare yet severe complication of COVID-19, highlighting a significant difference in mortality when compared with GBS not associated with COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"178-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MuSK Antibody-Positive Myasthenia Gravis With SARS CoV-2 Infection: A Case Report and Literature Review.","authors":"Shreyashi Jha, Santosh Kumar Pendyala","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000491","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000491","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"203-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andre Granger, Eric J Sorenson, Duygu Selcen, Teerin Liewluck
{"title":"Myopathy With Crescent of Nuclei: A Novel Histopathologic Finding in Desminopathy.","authors":"Andre Granger, Eric J Sorenson, Duygu Selcen, Teerin Liewluck","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000493","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"197-198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alessandra Maccabeo, Emanuela Salustro, Mauro Sanna, Pietro Garau, Maria Antonietta Maioli, Roberta Coa, Monica Puligheddu, Giuseppe Borghero
{"title":"Scleroderma-Polymyositis Overlap Syndrome as a Potential Bulbar Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mimic.","authors":"Alessandra Maccabeo, Emanuela Salustro, Mauro Sanna, Pietro Garau, Maria Antonietta Maioli, Roberta Coa, Monica Puligheddu, Giuseppe Borghero","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000467","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 4","pages":"199-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saranya B Gomathy, Animesh Das, Achal Kumar Srivastava
{"title":"Flail Leg Phenotype in Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Think of a Cause With Something to Offer.","authors":"Saranya B Gomathy, Animesh Das, Achal Kumar Srivastava","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000471","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 3","pages":"144-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James B Meiling, Nicholas J Miller, Rachana K Gandhi Mehta
{"title":"Sensory-Predominant Trigeminal Neuropathy Secondary to a Cosmetic Liquid Nitrogen Procedure.","authors":"James B Meiling, Nicholas J Miller, Rachana K Gandhi Mehta","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000462","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 3","pages":"141-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is in the Literature.","authors":"Mark B Bromberg","doi":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000473","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CND.0000000000000473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>This issue of What is in the Literature focuses on the Guillain-Barré syndrome. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a monophasic illness, and there is new information about precipitating factors, changes in nerve conduction studies over time, potential biomarkers, optimal treatment, and features in uncommon patient populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":39645,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease","volume":"25 3","pages":"157-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}