When do you consider immunosuppression in patients with Sjogren's neuropathy?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Only when disease activity is moderate-severe, impairing QoL, or rapidly progressive, ie mononeuritis multiplex/vasculitis, with significant risk of end-organ/tissue damage. Occasionally, autonomic neuropathy in SjD can be so debilitating to patient, and all other supportive treatments have failed, ...
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at UPMC Well thought out, thank you.
at University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Thank you.
@Nancy L. Carteron: I totally agree with your answer.
I'll add (and I'm sure you'll agree), I find this question one of the most difficult dilemmas in my SLE and Sjogren's patients. Even with moderate to severe neuropathy that is progressing... without a sural nerve biopsy showing active inflammati...
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at UPMC I like the idea of a sural nerve biopsy, but if th...
at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) @James A. DeMatteis: There is an excellent review ...
at University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco @Don - I've thought of MMultiplex as a spectrum of...
If the neuropathy is vasculitic, in association with cutaneous LCV, with palpable purpura and a foot drop, for example, I would definitely use DMARDS. These vasculitic neuropathies (mononeuritis multiplex) tend to be motor as well as sensory. I would screen for concomitant hep C infection in every s...
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at University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Agree.
May have seen a trend of degree of elevati...
Well thought out, thank you.
Thank you.