Two cases of sporadic late onset nemaline myopathy effectively treated with immunotherapy

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 605-611

  Mizuno, Yukio ^a   Mori Yoshimura, Madoka ^a   Okamoto, Tomoko ^a   Oya, Yasushi ^a   Nishino, Ichizo ^a   Murata, Miho ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apheresis; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance; Sporadic late onset nemalin myopathy; Steroid pulse therapy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LORDOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; SPORADIC LATE ONSET NEMALINE MYOPATHY; WALKING DIFFICULTY; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCLONAL GAMMOPATHY OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG;

EID: 84990188818     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.cn-000893     Document Type: Article

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