Table 1.

Clinical features and therapeutic status of two patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

Case	Sex/age	Disease Course (mo)	Number of recurrences	Pretreatment medication	Prednisone usage and dosage before tacrolimus	Tacrolimus		Therapeutic effect (ONLS score)
						Dosage (mg/d)	Length of treatment (mo)	Before Tacrolimus	After 6 mo treatment
1	F/17	11	4	IVIg; steroids	40 mg 4 wk, 35 mg 4 wk, 30 mg was associated with onset of symptoms	2	12	1	0
2	M/27	60	4	IVIg; steroids	-	3	6	2	0

ONLS: Overall neuropathy limitation scale; IVIg: Intravenous immunoglobulin.