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NEUROLOGY-NEUROIMMUNOLOGY & NEUROINFLAMMATION
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000001040
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- Amsterdam UMC Neuroscience Alliance grant
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The study found that serum contactin-1 levels were lower in CIDP patients with paranodal antibodies compared to those without, suggesting it may serve as a possible diagnostic biomarker for paranodal injury in CIDP. This provides class II evidence that serum contactin-1 levels can discriminate between CIDP patients with or without paranodal antibodies with 71% sensitivity and 97% specificity.
Objective To investigate whether serum levels of contactin-1, a paranodal protein, correlate with paranodal injury as seen in patients with CIDP with antibodies targeting the paranodal region. Methods Serum contactin-1 levels were measured in 187 patients with CIDP and 222 healthy controls. Paranodal antibodies were investigated in all patients. Results Serum contactin-1 levels were lower in patients (N = 41) with paranodal antibodies compared with patients (N = 146) without paranodal antibodies (p < 0.01) and showed good discrimination between these groups (area under the curve 0.84; 95% CI: 0.76-0.93). Conclusions These findings suggest that serum contactin-1 levels have the potential to serve as a possible diagnostic biomarker of paranodal injury in CIDP. Classification of Evidence This study provides class II evidence that serum contactin-1 levels can discriminate between patients with CIDP with or without paranodal antibodies with a sensitivity of 71% (95% CI: 56%-85%) and a specificity of 97% (95% CI: 83%-100%).
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