What early clinical findings help in differentiating CIDP vs. POEMS?

I would like to share that I had a very challenging experience last year with a patient ultimately diagnosed with POEMS by myself, after more than one year of treatment as CIDP. There were multiple reasons it was challenging:

1.) The patient presented initially with NO systemic features - just the ne...

Aside from the factum manifestum of the clinical/laboratory manifestations of “POEMS” which differentiate CIDP from POEMS, the electrophysiologic differentiators were well delineated by Mauermann et al., PMID 22396441. This study establishes that EDx studies must supplement a purely clinical examina...