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Multifocal motor neuropathy presenting with respiratory failure

✍ Scribed by Kanokwan Boonyapisit; Bashar Katirji

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 94 KB
Volume: 23
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-639X
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200012)23:12<1887::aid-mus16>3.0.co;2-y

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✦ Synopsis

Multifocal motor neuropathy is a disorder characterized by slowly progressive asymmetrical limb weakness and multiple motor conduction blocks. We report a 56-year-old woman with this disorder who presented unusually with respiratory failure and who initially had absent responses to phrenic nerve stimulation bilaterally. The mechanism of the patient's respiratory failure may have been chronic conduction blocks in the phrenic nerves leading to diaphragmatic weakness.

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