What are Inflammatory Neuropathies?

Inflammatory Neuropathies
Inflammatory Neuropathies. Light Microscopy Pictures from Patients with CIAP, Inflammatory Neuropathy, and Normal Controls.Light microscopy pictures from (a) a patient with CIAP, (b) inflammatory neuropathy, and (c) a normal control. All scale bars = 20μm. Study of Autophagy and Microangiopathy in Sural Nerves of Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Axonal Polyneuropathy: PLoS ONE. Not altered. CC.

Inflammatory neuropathies are the diseases of the neurons characterized by peripheral nerves, roots, and sensory and autonomic ganglia inflammatory cell infiltrates.

Examples of inflammatory neuropathies include:

  • Acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barre syndrome)
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
  • Neuropathy associated with systemic autoimmune diseases
  • Neuropathy associated with vasculitis