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Filter by:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a chronic and often disabling neuropathy that often responds to immune therapies. A few phenotypes have been identified even if it is unclear whether they are variants of CIDP or different diseases considering their relatively different responses to therapy. Antibodies against proteins at the node of Ranvier, including contactin 1 and neurofascin 155, have been reported in up to 10% of the patients and were associated to a poor response to CIDP therapy but a positive response to Rituximab supporting the heterogeneity of CIDP. We will examine these antibodies in a large population of Italian CIDP patients included in a Database and correlate their presence with the clinical and electrophysiological features of the neuropathy, its progression and response to therapy. We will perform an open label prospective therapeutic study with Rituximab in patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies and will correlate the response to therapy to the clinical phenotype and the presence of anti-neural antibodies.This may lead to a more appropriate choice of therapy in CIDP avoiding the use of expensive and possibly ineffective therapy. We will also collect the biological samples (serum and when available CSF) of the patients with CIDP and store them to allow the formation of a biological bank that may be used in future immunological studies to clarify the pathogenesis a of the disease and possibly to identify biomarkers of the disease and of response to therapy. This study will permit to collect a sufficiently large number of adequately and homogeneously examined patients with CIDP, with different antibody reactivities and with unsatisfactory response to therapy. This will permit to have sufficiently large number of patients to perform an open-label study with Rituximab whose efficacy has been so far reported only in anecdotal reports on small number of patients.
The main aim of the study is to check for side effects from TAK-771, and to check how well TAK-771 controls symptoms in Japanese participants with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) The participants will be treated with TAK-771 for 45 months as a maximum. There will be many clinic visits. The number of visits will depend on the infusion cycles of study drug (every 2, 3, or 4 weeks).
Primary Objectives: - Part A: Efficacy of SAR445088 across three subpopulations of CIDP patients: standard of care (SOC)-Treated, SOC-Refractory and SOC-Naive - Part B:Long-term safety and tolerability of SAR445088 in CIDP Secondary Objectives: - Part A: - Safety and tolerability of SAR445088 in CIDP - Immunogenicity of SAR445088 - Efficacy of SAR445088 with overlapping SOC (SOC-Treated group) - Part B: - Durability of efficacy during long-term treatment with SAR445088 in CIDP - Long-term immunogenicity of SAR445088 in CIDP
This is safety study. Subjects will be undergoing the surgical procedure of nerve biopsy. After routine surgery without grafting, patients develop swelling, redness, tenderness and dysesthesia at the biopsy site. In order to determine whether grafting is safe compared to not repairing the nerve, it is necessary to compare treated vs. untreated patients using systematic, sensitive and reproducible criteria.
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated disorder of peripheral nerves. Intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIg) are a first line therapy for CIDP. The investigators used a transcriptomic approach to compare the gene expression profiles in the peripheral blood of patients having a CIDP or autoimmune diseases, before and after IVIg treatment, in order to identify their mechanism of action in this condition, to lead to a better understanding of CIDP pathophysiology, and potentially determine factors associated with the response to the treatment.