Clinical and paraclinical peculiarities of sensory CIDP and DADS polyneuropathies

Scientific adviser: Vitalie Lisnic, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of MoldovaIntroduction.Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired disorder of peripheral nerves and nerve roots. The classic form of CIDP is fairly symmetric and motor involvement is greater than sensory. Recent series and epidemiologic data have shown that 35% of CIDP patients may have only sensory symptoms. The term distal acquired demyelinating symmetric (DADS) neuropathy was introduced by Katz et al. (2000) to describe a group of patients with predominantly distal sensory and ataxic demyelinating neuropathy. In our study we want to determine what are the most sensitive tests to perform in sensory CIDP and DADS, and what are the most frequent clinical findings in these patients