Table 2.
Main clinical and laboratory data from 2 subpopulations of patients with polyneuropathy and anti-MAG antibodies according to nerve conduction findings.
| Patients with the anti-MAG pattern n = 37 |
Patients with the CIDP-like pattern n = 17 |
Statistical significance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical widening of myelin lamellae | 21/27 (78%) | 2/12 (17%) | p < 0.05 |
| Positive indirect immunofluorescence | 20/22 (91%) | 3/10 (30%) | p < 0.05 |
| Anti-MAG antibodies >10 000 BTU | 32/37 (86%) | 7/17 (41%) | p < 0.05 |
| Mean titer of anti-MAG antibodies (SD) | 38410 (26626) n = 33 |
20560 (23097) n = 17 |
p < 0.05 |