As many as four percent of the world’s population lives with an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system fails to distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’ and mistakenly attacks the body, ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) results in disability through immune-mediated nerve injury, which can lead to irreversible deficits after the inflammatory component of CIDP is ...

Just a few months into a new launch in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), agrenx’s Vyvgart is already making headway in the rare disease space, just one of the long-term growth ...

An inability to distinguish between CIDP and POEMS syndrome can negatively affect treatment strategies and outcomes. A 2-step protocol using conduction block and maximum/minimum cross-sectional area ...

This week, we are going to continue down the road of autoimmune peripheral nerve conditions to discuss two that we have touched on in the past—Guillain-Barré Syndrome and CIDP (chronic inflammatory ...

If you have chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), you may have encountered delays and missteps before finally getting diagnosed. Getting the correct diagnosis can be tricky when ...

MONTREAL — An open-label extension study of subcutaneous efgartigimod PH20 to treat chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) showed durability of functional improvements to week 24, ...

Discovery of the antigenic targets associated with nerve-specific autoimmune diseases is a crucial step in understanding their pathogenesis The identification of highly disease-specific autoantibodies ...

A blockbuster Argenx therapy now has an additional FDA approval as a treatment for a rare autoimmune disorder affecting nerves, marking the first new treatment for this condition in decades and a new ...

Takeda kicked off 2024 by reeling in an approval for HyQvia in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and it’s closing out the year by launching its first direct-to-consumer ...

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