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Shin Joong Oh, MD

Arch Neurol. 1978;35(8):509-516.

Abstract
• Ten patients with subacute demyelinating neuropathy responded satisfactorily to corticosteroid treatment. The most prominent features in these cases were (1) subacute progression of diffuse polyneuropathy over weeks and months, (2) high spinal fluid protein level, (3) marked nerve conduction abnormalities, and (4) high rate of relapse. The sural nerve biopsy specimen showed "demyelinating neuropathy."

This subacute demyelination neuropathy appears to be a distinct and clinically identifiable entity in which corticosteroid treatment is indicated.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, University of Alabama School of Medicine, and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Birmingham.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 20, 1977.

Read in part before the 29th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Atlanta, April 1977.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, University of Alabama, University Station, Birmingham, AL 35294 (Dr Oh).

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