Neurology

What is your treatment approach for patients with glossopharyngeal neuralgia who are refractory to treatment with first-line AEDs? When do you send fo...

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When do you obtain nerve biopsy to evaluate for vasculitic neuropathy in patients with distal symmetric polyneuropathies?

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Do you routinely perform muscle biopsies in patients presenting with the classic symptoms of Inclusion Body Myositis along with positive CN1A antibody?

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What are outpatient strategies to mitigate taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy?

Are there any protocols in place? Aside from telling patients to use ice packs or bags or immerse hands/feet in ice water baths from 15" before to 15"...

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Do you always biopsy patients who present with classic skin findings of dermatomyositis?

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What is your approach to a child with toe walking with a reassuring exam but a family history of difficulty walking?

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How do you counsel patients with mild congenital myopathy about exercise limitations?

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Would you recommend muscle or nerve biopsy in a patient with amyoplasia congenita?

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When would you consider treatment with steroids in patients with diabetic radiculoplexus neuropathy?

Are there any alternative treatments?

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When do you use rozanolixizumab for Musk MG?

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How do you decide between FcRn inhibitors and complement inhibitors for treatment-refractory AChR-positive myasthenia gravis?

E.g., FcRn inhibitors such as efgartigimod and rozanolixizumab, and complement inhibitors such as ravulizumab and eculizumab.

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When and how do you deviate from efgartigimod (Vyvgart) dosing from the drug label recommendation of weekly infusions for four weeks in patients with myasthenia gravis?

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Which methods of tracking response to treatment in myasthenia gravis do you find most helpful?

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How do you adjust dosing of rozanolixizumb for MG patients who deteriorate before the minimum re-dosing period?

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How do you treat fatigue symptoms in myasthenia gravis?

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How do you approach workup for patients with suspected muscular dystrophy?

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What is your approach to the management of Bell's palsy that has not improved after six months?

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What leads you to suspect that a foot drop is secondary to a myopathy rather than a neuropathic process?

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How frequently do you re-evaluate AChR and MuSK antibodies in patients with clinical and electrodiagnostic evidence of seronegative myasthenia gravis?

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What is the importance of finding a positive titer for TS-HDS and what treatment would be advised for these patients?

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In which clinical scenarios do you find medial and lateral plantar sensory or mixed nerve conduction studies to be valuable?

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Which non-pharmacologic treatments for neuropathic pain have you found most effective?

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Do you perform EMG and repetitive nerve stimulation in patients with ocular myasthenia gravis, particularly those who are AChR-positive, to assess for electrophysiological evidence of generalized disease?

If repetitive nerve stimulation is abnormal beyond the facial nerve, but the patient exhibits only ocular or eyelid weakness clinically, do you consid...

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How do you treat benign fasciculation syndrome?

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How do you counsel patients who wish to travel to high altitudes with myasthenia gravis?

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Should IVIG dosing in patients with autoimmune disease (i.e., dermatomyositis) who become pregnant continue to be based on actual weight at the time of each infusion, or should it be limited to pre-pregnancy weight?

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How do you approach sequentially tapering combination therapy (i.e., IVIG, mycophenolate, rituximab) for dermatomyositis that is in remission?

Would you taper the IVIG first or the cellcept/rituximab?

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How do you approach managing nausea and GI side effects when initiating methotrexate?

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How does one interpret an SPEP showing potentially obscured but non-quantifiable M-spike however an IFE showing monoclonal protein?

Can you elaborate on reasons for a non-quantifiable SPEP and how does one follow the paraprotein?

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When do you test for myasthenia antibodies beyond AChR and MuSK?

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Does receiving IVIG confound the result of SPEP and/or UPEP?

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When do you send AChR+ ocular myasthenia gravis patients for thymectomy?

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

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How do you approach patients with positive LRP4 antibodies without clinical findings of myasthenia gravis?

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What is the stepwise investigation of patients suspected of inflammatory myopathy?

Especially in an inpatient setting when EMG is not immediately available.

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How would one approach treating a patient with primary immunodeficiency on IVIG treatment who develops myasthenia gravis?

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Do you find IVIG to be an effective maintenance therapy for myasthenia gravis?

In light of the publication in Bril et al., PMID 39506903.

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What typical lab tests do you send off for evaluation of neuropathy?

When do you use specialized panels for neuropathy? Which panels do you typically use?

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When do you consider spinal cord stimulator for patients with neuropathic pain?

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When would you refer patients with Parsonage-Turner syndrome for surgical treatment?

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What would be the differential and initial workup for tongue fasciculation?

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What is your approach to light sedation in pediatric EMG?

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What postural change in FVC is suggestive of respiratory muscle weakness?

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How are you counseling your patients with ALS taking sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol on continuing treatment in light of the negative phase 3 trial results?

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Beyond fatigability, what distinctive features of diplopia characterize myasthenia gravis?

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Would you add immunosuppression in ocular myasthenia gravis patients who are symptomatically well-controlled on pyridostigmine?

In light of the recent publication by Menon et al., PMID 39079067 regarding the risk of converting to generalized MG as related to use of immunosuppre...

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To what extent do you incorporate electrodiagnostic testing and ultrasonography in your clinical practice for evaluating suspected cases of meralgia paresthetica?

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What workup do you recommend for patients with symptoms suggestive of saphenous neuropathy?

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How do you use muscle MRI in the diagnosis and management of muscular dystrophies?

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What is your approach to DVT prophylaxis in patients who require IVIG but are at increased risk for thrombotic events?

E.g., a patient with newly diagnosed CIDP who is wheelchair-bound.

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How do you workup patients with neuropathy suspected to be secondary to sarcoid?

Is a biopsy or EMG helpful in confirming the etiology? What is the best treatment for sarcoid neuropathy?

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How do you approach treatment of patients with brachioradial pruritus?

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What treatments are most effective for muscle cramps and stiffness in Isaac's syndrome and other peripheral nerve hyperexcitability disorders?

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How do you dose gabapentin in patients with renal failure?

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Do you utilize phrenic nerve EMG in patients with diaphragmatic issues?

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How do you counsel newly diagnosed patients with ALS on dietary recommendations?

Patients often see a dietician at ALS centers, but what do you discuss with patients before they have a formal consult with a dietician?

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How do you utilize corticosteroids in the management of CIDP?

I’ve seen literature supporting use of IV pulse dose steroids, though I’ve noticed some have come up with their own various oral regimens ...

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How do you counsel patients with ALS on the benefits of enteral nutrition?

E.g., PEG tube placement.

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How do you initiate steroids in ocular Myasthenia Gravis?

What dosage do you start with?

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Do you recommend Alpha Lipoic Acid to patients with diabetic polyneuropathy?

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Do you favor the use of maximal inspiratory/expiratory pressure measurement or supine spirometry in the evaluation of a patient with suspected respiratory muscle weakness?

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How do you track objective clinical response to treatment in CIDP?

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Is history of GBS a contraindication for all future flu vaccines?

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What nutritional supplements do you recommend for patients with ALS?

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When do you initiate migalastat in female patients with genetic evidence of heterozygous Fabry disease?

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How do you reconcile the benefits of high glycemic load to slow ALS disease progression with previous data on the increased risk for ALS associated with diabetes mellitus?

Particularly the increased risk for ALS in patients with DM in East Asian populations: Vasta et al., Neurological Sciences 2021.

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Do you send only serum paraneoplastic panels or also include CSF evaluation in patients with concern for paraneoplastic neuropathy?

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How will you sequence therapies in dermatomyositis given the results of the ProDERM trial?

Will you still favor starting with steroids and traditional immunosuppressive agents, move IVIG earlier in your treatment strategy, or start with IVIG...

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Do you see secondary EMG/NCS abnormalities in patients with chronic upper motor neuron dysfunction such as cerebral palsy, myelopathy, or remote stroke?

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When do you start to cross-titrate from steroids to CellCept in patients with Myasthenia Gravis?

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Do you typically recommend EMG/nerve conduction study for patients with stinger syndrome as a result of an athletic injury?

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What treatment do you recommend for patients with meralgia paresthetica?

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How many times one can use IVIG in GBS?

Plasmapheresis first or IVIG first in GBS? What other treatment options are there for severe disabling GBS?

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How clinically meaningful are the differences in the primary outcome between treatment and placebo groups in the CENTAUR trial?

Will these results change your practice?

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What autonomic symptoms do you encounter in patients with ALS?

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When do you consider complement inhibitors or FcRN inhibitors in patients with myasthenia gravis?

These are new medications and, to my knowledge, there is no agreed-upon standardized approach as to when they should be used.

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Would a surgical decompression be indicated in a patient with amyloidosis and severe median neuropathy at the wrist?

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What management do you recommend in patients with backpack palsy?

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Is there a role for inpatient EMG/NCS in patients who present with rhabdomyolysis with unclear etiology?

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How do you counsel pregnant patients with myasthenia gravis?

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What is the clinical utility of getting repeat antibody testing in patients with recurrent symptoms and a history of Miller-Fischer syndrome?

The patient returned with recurrent subjective sensory or motor deficits. The initial GQ1B was >1:6400. Two years later, GQ1B was 1:3200.

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Does IVIG or subcutaneous Ig interfere with monoclonal antibody therapy (i.e. dupilumab, infliximab, rituximab, etc)?

How should IVIG and either biologic injections or infusions be spaced?

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Would you avoid combining JAK inhibitors with IVIG given the risk of thromboembolism?

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How frequently do you check CK in patients with Becker's muscular dystrophy?

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What workup do you initiate for thoracic outlet syndrome?

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When do you consider genetic testing in patients with suspected hereditary brachial plexopathy?

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How do you counsel patients with postmedian sternotomy plexopathy?

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How do you manage immunotherapy-induced myasthenia gravis?

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What is your approach to determining if an SPEP abnormality is causal or coincidental in peripheral neuropathy work up?

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Which novel immunomodulatory treatment(s) do you consider in refractory seronegative bulbar-predominant myasthenia?

Presuming failure/intolerance of steroids, MMF, azathioprine, maintenance IVIg

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Is there a utility in getting repeat antibody testing on GBS patients after PLEX?

Can this guide further treatment/prognosis?

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How do you recommend tapering IVIG in patients whose inflammatory myositis has achieved remission?

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Do you screen for paraneoplastic antibodies in patients with suspected ALS?

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How would you treat a patient with necrotizing myopathy with positive anti-HMHCoR Ab unresponsive to standard therapies?

How would you treat a patient with necrotizing myopathy with positive anti-HMHCoR Ab (and low TIF1 gamma) that failed prednisone + Cellcept, IVIG + Ce...

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Which myositis patients are good candidates for IVIG?

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How long can you treat dermatomyositis with IVIG?

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Do you recommend any dietary modifications for patients with HSAN1?

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Do you screen for any environmental exposures in patients with newly diagnosed ALS?

Are there any environmental exposures you ask about for newly diagnosed ALS patients?

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Would testing for ATTR cardiac amyloidosis be considered in an older patient with bilateral carpal tunnel surgeries and multiple spinal stenosis surgeries, but no obvious cardiac symptoms?

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Do you utilize muscle MRI to track disease progression in myopathies?

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When do you typically check vitamin B5 levels in patients with peripheral neuropathy?

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

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Do you use sitting vs supine spirometry to consider tracheostomy in a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?

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What do you use to treat cramping in Kennedy's disease?

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How do you manage radiation plexopathy?

How does this strategy change depending on the acuity or chronicity of the symptoms?

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Does pregabalin contribute to esophagitis or gastroparesis?

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What is your approach to elevated CK in patients without clinical or serologic evidence of immune mediated myopathy?

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What is your preferred workup for patients who present with concern for autonomic neuropathy?

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How do you treat CIDP patients unresponsive to IVIG and steroids?

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In light of the FDA approval of tofersen for SOD1-related ALS, what is your approach to counseling people who are presymptomatic genetic carriers of one of the monogenic ALS genes?

What do you recommend for surveillance and when to start the “three R’s” (riluzole, radicava/edaravone, and relyvrio (sodium PB/TUDC...

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Do you typically pursue EMG/nerve conduction study in patients who already have a clinical diagnosis of myasthenia gravis?

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Under which clinical scenarios do you consider an inpatient EMG?

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How do you treat congenital paramyotonia symptoms?

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Do patients on eculizumab or ravulizumab require repeat vaccination against meningococcal infection after a certain interval?

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How frequently do you check lab work in patients with stable myasthenia gravis?

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When do you check neurofilament light chain in patients with neurodegenerative illnesses?

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When do you recommend checking blink reflex in patients with Bell's Palsy?

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How do you manage patients with a diagnosis of AIDP who do not respond to initial IVIg?

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What is the significance of isolated increase of Asialo-GM1 antibodies with nerve conduction suggestive of sensory motor axonal polyneuropathy?

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Do you typically get muscle MRI in patients with symptoms of myopathy?

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In what clinical scenarios do you utilize neuromuscular ultrasound?

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How do you approach the diagnostic workup for patients with suspected Fabry's disease?

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How do you manage cramps in patients with ALS?

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Can Guillain-Barre syndrome present with intact reflexes?

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Do you typically recommend a wash-out period when switching patients with myasthenia gravis from Soliris to Vyvgart?

Do you switch MG patients from Soliris to Vyvgart due to cost, and with switching do you have a recommended wash out period?

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Do you typically see peripheral neuropathy in patients with castleman syndrome?

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Would the concerns about respiratory side effects from sodium phenylbutyrate and taurusodiol change your management of patients with predominantly bulbar ALS?

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Do you ever refer patients for surgery with significant peripheral neuropathy and lumbosacral radiculopathy?

Is there any role for a surgical intervention in patients with distal weakness, who has marked peripheral neuropathy but also lumbosacral radiculopath...

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How do you manage myasthenia gravis in patients over the age of 90?

What is the best way to treat late onset myasthenia gravis (in this case, age >90)? Would the newer complement inhibitors be safe? Steroids in this...

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How do you account for a normal EMG/NCS in the setting of prolonged clinical symptoms suggestive of a radiculopathy?

How do you account for a normal EMG/NCS in the setting of prolonged clinical symptoms suggestive of a radiculopathy? How do you explain this to patien...

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Do you use isosorbide dinitrate spray for the treatment of neuropathic pain?

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When do you recommend genetic testing in patients with neuropathy?

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Do you typically encounter phrenic involvement in patients with CIDP?

Do you see improvement with treatment such as IVIG?

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When is a paraneoplastic panel indicated when working up patients with neuromuscular conditions?

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How do you approach malignant plexopathy?

In patients with hx of metastatic cancer, presenting with unilateral proximal arm weakness. No checkpoint inhibitors use. Which CSF lab...

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Do you discontinue or adjust azathioprine when a patient develops elevated MCV after starting it?

When it seems fairly certain that this is a drug effect is it something that can just be monitored or requires a change in approach?

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How do you counsel patients on the side effects of sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol?

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Do you typically assess plasma levels of the phosphorylated axonal neurofilament H subunit (pNF-H) in patients with ALS?

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Based on its mechanism of action, do you think sodium phenylbutyrate and taurursodiol could have benefit in other neurodegenerative disorders?

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How do you approach pain management in patients with idiopathic polyneuropathy?

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When would you add acyclovir for treatment of Bell's Palsy in addition to steroids and symptomatic care?

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What is your preferred medical treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome that recurs after carpal tunnel release?

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When treating sialorrhea in ALS patients, what treatment schedule do you use?

Assouline et al., PMID 24411632 recommend delivering 500cGy x 4 fractions = 2000cGy on days 1, 3, 8, 10. Do you follow this schedule, treat every othe...

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What is your approach to treatment of benign fasciculation syndrome?

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How do you manage a diabetic patient with generalized myasthenia gravis post thymectomy previously treated with Imuran?

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How does failure to recover clinically after >2 years in a patient with suspected diabetic amytrophy shift diagnostic and therpeutic approach?

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When do you redose IVIG in GBS patients who were under-treated and are worsening?

Is there any data supporting this?

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Does use of imaging influence diagnostic accuracy and patient outcome in patients with suspected CIDP?

In patients with suspected CIDP, does the use of imaging—MRI (thickening or abnormal enhancement of cervical/lumbar nerve roots or brachial/lumb...

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When do you consider immunosuppression in patients with Sjogren's neuropathy?

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How would you treat a patient with small fiber neuropathy and elevated FGFR3 titers of 6000?

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Why do we not typically see features of rhabdomyolysis or acute kidney injury with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies?

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How do you approach the workup for patients with hyperCKemia and positive NXP2 with no clinical symptoms?

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How long do you hold pyridostigmine prior to EMG / nerve conduction study in patients with suspected myasthenia?

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When do you trial pyridostigmine in a patient with suspected myasthenia gravis?

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

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Do you treat patients with riluzole who have ALS and a valosin-containing protein mutation?

Does your management change in any way?

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How do you decide on initiation of treatment with steroids or immunomodulatory therapy in patients with statin-induced myopathy versus statin-induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy?

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

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

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

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Do you ever use IVIG in patients with parsonage-turner syndrome?

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What workup do you do for patients who have PL-7 elevation when screening for myopathy?

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How do you work up patients who present with elevated myoglobin in the setting of normal creatinine kinase and exercise intolerance?

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

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How do you interpret a mildly positive NT5C1A lab test in patients with hyperCKemia?

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What workup do you recommend for patients with low back pain and imaging concerning for spina bifida occulta?

What referrals do you recommend/imaging orders?

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At what point do you recommend muscle biopsy in the workup for myositis?

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When do you use plasmapheresis after IVIG in patients with Guillain-Barre Syndrome?

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When would you suspect metabolic myopathy and what is your approach to initial workup?

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What is the role of x-ray of the cervical or lumbar spine in patients presenting with radicular symptoms?

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...

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What is the first line therapy for demyelinating neuropathy with positive NF-155 antibodies?

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At what stage of the neuropathy workup do you screen for B6 toxicity?

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How do you treat lupus-associated small fiber neuropathy?

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How would you approach evaluation and treatment of a patient on pembrolizumab therapy who presents with symmetric, proximal, upper extremity and lower extremity painful weakness without an elevated CK?

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Have you seen patients who develop neuromuscular disorders following COVID-19 vaccination?

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Do you recommend EMG/NCS in all patients with clinical findings of carpal tunnel syndrome?

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At what point is a skin biopsy indicated in patients with neuropathy?

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How do you manage a patient with inclusion body myositis?

Is there a role for immunomodulatory therapy?

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What is the importance of finding a positive titer for FGFR3 and what treatment would be advised for these patients?

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When do you initiate immunosuppressant drugs for patients with a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis?

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What workup do you start in patients with evidence of demyelination on EMG/NCS?

At what point do you consider genetic testing?

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Do you start Riluzole on all patients diagnosed with ALS?

Are there any reasons you avoid therapy?

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At what timepoint do you do an EMG/NCS in patients with suspected GBS?

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

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What suspected myositis manifestations drive you to start empiric therapy before the work-up is complete?

Myositis specific antibodies and pathology results often take weeks to result. In which cases do you start therapy before the diagnosis is solid...

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How do you differentiate motor neuron disease from limb girdle muscular dystrophy on electrodiagnostic testing?

What other workup/clinical examination findings do you look for?

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In a patient with suspected Miller Fisher syndrome, would you wait until antibody testing results to start IVIG or treat empirically?

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

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In patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who have an exon 51 mutation, do you treat with both prednisone and Eteplirsen?

What are common side effects to look out for with Eteplirsen?

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In patients with clinically probable ALS, what other mimicking pathology do you rule out before establishing the diagnosis?

Ie through electrodiagnostic, imaging, and otherwise?

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Is an EMG/NCS required to clinically diagnose Guillain barre syndrome?

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How do you approach the use of biologics in patients with a history of Guillain-Barre syndrome?

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How do you monitor response to treatment in patients with mononeuritis multiplex secondary to vasculitis?

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 ...

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Papers discussed in this category

N Engl J Med, 2022 Oct 06

Trial of Intravenous Immune Globulin in Dermatomyositis.

Muscle & nerve, 2003-02

Sensory neuropathy with monoclonal IgM binding to a trisulfated heparin disaccharide.

Muscle & nerve, 2012-06

Clinical and laboratory features of neuropathies with serum IgM binding to TS-HDS.

Muscle Nerve, 2022 Nov 29

A double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study of immunoglobulin for small fiber neuropathy associated with TS-HDS and FGFR-3 autoantibodies.

Muscle & nerve, 2019 Nov 06

Cryptogenic small-fiber neuropathies: Serum autoantibody binding to trisulfated heparan disaccharide and fibroblast growth factor receptor-3.

Journal of clinical neuromuscular disease, 2021 Jun 01

Clinical Features and Treatment Response in Immune-Mediated Small Fiber Neuropathy with Trisulfated Heparin Disaccharide or Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 3 Antibodies.

Journal of neurology, 2023 Jun 09

TS-HDS autoantibody: clinical characterization and utility from real-world tertiary care center experience.

J Clin Rheumatol, 2021 Sep 23

Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy.

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

Intravenous Immune Globulin for Statin-Triggered Autoimmune Myopathy.

Rheumatol Int, 2019 Feb 18

Intravenous human immunoglobulin and/or methylprednisolone pulse therapies as a possible treat-to-target strategy in immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies.

Annals of neurology, 2013-11

Eteplirsen for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Lancet Neurol, 2018 Mar 07

Stage at which riluzole treatment prolongs survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a retrospective analysis of data from a dose-ranging study.

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

A Comprehensive Algorithm for Management of Neuropathic Pain.

Continuum (Minneap Minn),

Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Brain : a journal of neurology, 2016-05

Association of inclusion body myositis with T cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia.

Scand J Rheumatol, 2018 May 18

Blood-flow restricted resistance training in patients with sporadic inclusion body myositis: a randomized controlled trial.

Clin Neurophysiol Pract, 2018 Apr 05

Nerve conduction studies and EMG in carpal tunnel syndrome: Do they add value?

Muscle Nerve, 2021 May 04

Parsonage Turner syndrome after COVID-19 vaccination.

Journal of clinical neuromuscular disease, 2010-12

Plasma exchange after initial intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in Guillain-Barré syndrome: critical reassessment of effectiveness and cost-efficiency.

Lancet,

Randomised trial of plasma exchange, intravenous immunoglobulin, and combined treatments in Guillain-Barré syndrome. Plasma Exchange/Sandoglobulin Guillain-Barré Syndrome Trial Group.

Lancet Neurol, 2021 Mar 17

Second intravenous immunoglobulin dose in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome with poor prognosis (SID-GBS): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

Ann Neurol,

Pharmacokinetics of intravenous immunoglobulin and outcome in Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Neurology, 2021 Oct 11

Neurofascin-155 Immunoglobulin Subtypes: Clinicopathologic Associations and Neurologic Outcomes.

Current rheumatology reports, 2015-10

Myositis Mimics.

Curr Opin Rheumatol,

Myositis mimics: how to recognize them.

Neurology, 2020 Nov 03

International Consensus Guidance for Management of Myasthenia Gravis: 2020 Update.

Cephalalgia, 2022 Apr 26

Intravenous lacosamide and phenytoin for the treatment of acute exacerbations of trigeminal neuralgia: A retrospective analysis of 144 cases.

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society, 2022 Dec 08

Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia.

Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, 2023 Jun 01

Guidelines for the management of trigeminal neuralgia.

Ann Rheum Dis, 2017 Dec

2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups.

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

A longitudinal cohort study of the anti-synthetase syndrome: increased severity of interstitial lung disease in black patients and patients with anti-PL7 and anti-PL12 autoantibodies.

Autoimmun Rev, 2012 Jul 05

Hierarchical cluster and survival analyses of antisynthetase syndrome: phenotype and outcome are correlated with anti-tRNA synthetase antibody specificity.

J Immunol Methods, 2016 Feb 18

Testing for myositis specific autoantibodies: Comparison between line blot and immunoprecipitation assays in 57 myositis sera.

Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy, 2024 Jun

Cost-effectiveness of eculizumab and efgartigimod for the treatment of anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive generalized myasthenia gravis.

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2025 Jan 11

C5 complement inhibition versus FcRn modulation in generalised myasthenia gravis.

Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation, 2024 Nov 27

Ravulizumab and Efgartigimod in Myasthenia Gravis: A Real-World Study.

Journal of neurology, 2024 Jul 30

A real-life experience with eculizumab and efgartigimod in generalized myasthenia gravis patients.

Lancet Neurol, 2021 Jul

Safety, efficacy, and tolerability of efgartigimod in patients with generalised myasthenia gravis (ADAPT): a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.

Journal of the neurological sciences, 2024 Nov 17

Early deterioration of CIDP following transition from IVIG to FcRn inhibitor treatment.

Muscle & nerve, 2010-08

Utility of electrodiagnostic testing in evaluating patients with lumbosacral radiculopathy: An evidence-based review.

The Laryngoscope, 2016-01

The role of radiation therapy in the management of sialorrhea: A systematic review.

Journal of the neurological sciences, 2011-09-15

Unilateral parotid electron beam radiotherapy as palliative treatment for sialorrhea in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

J Peripher Nerv Syst, 2021 Jul 30

European Academy of Neurology/Peripheral Nerve Society guideline on diagnosis and treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: Report of a joint Task Force-Second revision.

Neurology, 2020 Jan 20

Nerve ultrasound improves detection of treatment-responsive chronic inflammatory neuropathies.

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Prospective study of the additional benefit of plexus magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.

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