Neuromyotonia: Clinical profile of twenty cases from northwest India

Neurology India

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 382-386

  Panagariya, Ashok ^a,b   Kumar, Hrishikesh ^a   Mathew, Vivek ^a   Sharma, Bhawna ^a  

^a SMS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Raj Niketan   (India)

Author keywords

Motor unit hyperactivity; Neuromyotonia; Potassium channel disorders

Indexed keywords

AYURVEDIC DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENYTOIN; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INDIA; INSOMNIA; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOKYMIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLIOMYELITIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33845341781     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.28110     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Mertens HG, Zschocke S. Neromyotonie. Klin Wochenschr 1965;43:917-25.
2. Denny Brown D, Foley DM. Myokymia and Benign Fasciculations of muscular cramps. Trans Assoc Am Physicians 1948;61:88-96.
3. Isaacs H. A syndrome of continuous muscle fiber activity. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1961;24:319-25.
4. Liguori R, Vincent A, Clover L, Avoni P, Plazzi G, Cortelli P, et al. Morvan's syndrome: Peripheral and central nervous system and cardiac involvement with antibodies to voltage-gated potassium channels. Brain 2001;124:2417-26.
5. American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine glossary of terms in electrodiagnostic medicine. Muscle Nerve 2001;10:S1-50.
6. Vincent A. Understanding neuromyotonia. Muscle Nerve 2000;23:655-7.
7. Isaacs H. Continuous muscle fiber activity in an Indian male with additional evidence of terminal motor fiber abnormality. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1967;30:126-33.
8. Desai AD, Pandya SS, Raju TN. Continuous muscle fibre activity (Isaacs). Neurol India 1970;18:101-6.
9. Irani PF, Purohit AV, Wadia NH. The syndrome of continuous muscle fiber activity: Evidence to suggest proximal neurogenic causation. Acta Neurol Scand 1977;55:273-88.
10. Hart IK. Acquired neuromyotonia: A new autoantibody mediated potassium channelopathy. Am J Med Sci 2000;319:209-16.
11. Modarres H, Samuel M, Schon F. Isolated finger flexion: A novel form of neuromyotonia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000;69:110-3.
12. Schultz WT, Hoyt WF, Behrens M, MacLean J, Saul RF, Corbett JJ. Ocular neuromyotonia. A clinical description of six patients. Arch Ophthalmol 1986;104:1028-34.
13. Greenhouse AH, Bicknell JM, Pesch RN, Seelinger DF. Myotonia, myokymia, hyperhidrosis and wasting of muscle. Neurology 1967;17:263-8.
14. Hudson AJ, Brown WF, Gilbert JJ. The muscular pain fasciculation syndrome. Neurology 1978;28:1105-9.
15. Serratrice G, Azulay JP. What is left of Morvan's fibrillary chorea? Rev Neurol (Paris) 1994;150:257-65.
16. Loscher WN, Wanschitz J, Reiners K, Quasthoff S. Morvan's syndrome: Clinical, laboratory and in vitro electrophysiological studies. Muscle Nerve 2004;30:157-63.
17. Sinha S, Newsom-Davis J, Mills K, Byrne N, Vincent A. Auto-immune etiology for acquired neuromyotonia (Isaac's syndrome). Lancet 1991;338:75-7.
18. Hart IK, Maddison P, Newsom-Davis J, Vincent A, Mills KR. Phenotypic variants of autoimmune peripheral nerve hyperexcitability. Brain 2002;125:1887-95.
19. Mata S, Galli E, Amantini A, Pinto F, Sorbi S, Lolli F. Anti-ganglioside antibodies and elevated CSF IgG levels in Guillain-Barre syndrome. Eur J Neurol 2006;13:153-60.
20. Misra UK, Kalita J, Yadav RK, Agarwal A. Neuromyotonia with neuropathy and muscle hypertrophy: Association or cause? Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol 2006;46:17-20.
21. Nakatsuji Y, Kaido M, Sugai F, Nakamori M, Abe K, Watanabe O, et al. Isaacs' syndrome successfully treated by immunoadsorption plasmapheresis. Acta Neurol Scand 2000;102:271-3.
22. Hayat GR, Kulkantrakorn K, Campbell WW, Giuliani MJ. Neuromyotonia: Autoimmune pathogenesis and response to immune modulating therapy. J Neurol Sci 2000;181:38-43.
23. van den Berg JS, van Engelen BG, Boerman RH, de Baets MH. Acquired neuromyotonia: Superiority of plasma exchange over high-dose intravenous human immunoglobulin. J Neurol 1999;246:623-5.