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Dysautonomic polyneuropathy as a variant of chronic inflammatory “demyelinating” polyneuropathy?

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This report describes the clinical course over almost one decade of a male patient presenting with immune-mediated pure autonomic neuropathy resembling a distinct variant of chronic dysimmune polyneuropathies. We suppose autoantibodies directed against epitopes on autonomic axons or neurons causative for the symptoms.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Hans-Heinrich Wolf

  2. Department of Neurology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Malte Erich Kornhuber & Andreas Posa

  3. Institute of Neuropathology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Joachim Weis

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Correspondence to Andreas Posa.

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Wolf, HH., Kornhuber, M.E., Weis, J. et al. Dysautonomic polyneuropathy as a variant of chronic inflammatory “demyelinating” polyneuropathy?. Clin Auton Res 26, 303–305 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-016-0369-3

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