PHYS 799 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, Wallerian Degeneration, Campylobacter Jejuni
22 Apr 2019
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* no highlighting or comments from dr. deyrup this week. Ros, microvascular changes, changes in axonal metabolism, protein c levels: metabolic diseases, drugs, toxins, ct diseases, vasculitides and infection can cause peripheral neuropathy, diseases of peripheral nerves can be inherited pmp22 gene mutation most common. Disorders of skeletal muscle: patterns of skeletal muscle injury, sk muscle type i: slow twitch aerobic ; type ii: fast twitch anaerobic , muscle fiber atrophy seen in neuropathic and myopathic process. Associated with nf1: not encapsulated; circumscribed or diffuse infiltrative growth; admixed with other cell types (mast, fibroblast-like and perineurial-like cells, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors - 50% from the malignant transformation of a preexisting nf1-associated neurofibroma. Big robbins the eye pp 1319 1343. Unilateral optic nerve head swelling may result from compression of the optic nerve such as in primary tumors of the nerve.
