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Combined azathioprine and prednisone in chronic inflammatory-demyelinating polyneuropathy

Peripheral Nerve Laboratory, Mayo Medical School and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905.

Twenty-seven patients with static or worsening chronic inflammatory-demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy were randomly assigned to alternate day decremental prednisone therapy alone or with azathioprine (2 mg/kg) for 9 months. No statistically significant alterations were demonstrated between these treatment schedules.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Dyck, Peripheral Nerve Laboratory, Mayo Medical School and Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905.

Supported in part by a Peripheral Neuropathy Clinical Center Grant from NINCDS (NS14304), a Center Grant from MDA. and Mayo, Borrhard, Upton, and Herrick Funds.

Accepted for publication November 30, 1984.

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