Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block

Nervous system Spontaneously recovering multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction blocks after 8 months of infliximab therapy for ankylosing spondylitis has been reported [45 ]. 

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Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block can involve one or more limbs, ft may or may not be associated with IgM anti-GMl antibody. One should also look for other dysinunune abnormahties through immunofixation electropheresis, quantitative immunoglobulins, and testing for immune complexes, antinuclear factor, and rheumatoid factor. Response to IVIG treatment is often exceUent or good and, more recently, the immunosuppressant rituximab has sometimes been successful. 

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