Chronic immune neuropathies - diagnosis and treatment

Chronic immune neuropathies are a clinical heterogeneous group of inflammatory diseases of the peripheral nervous system Although they are rare diseases the most frequent chronic immune neuropathy is the chronic inflammatory demyelinating poly neuropathy (CIDP) including its atypical manifestations Due to the lack of accepted diagnostic criteria, the prevalence was underestimated in recent years After the development of clinical and neurophysiological criteria, diagnosis of CIDP has been simplified There are also more reliable data on the treatment of CIDP using immunosuppressive or modulatory drugs In this paper the current clinical and neurophysiological features of CIDP and its treatment will be reviewed