Dr. 's words on Spinal Tap and CMT

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Dear ers,

With our recent topic on " CMT and a spinal tap " I ruminated over this all night,

wondering IF there is a reason/and or COULD CMT be diagnosed this way. So, this

morning I contacted Dr. Greg , CMT expert in Washington, to ask for his

thoughts. This is his response:

" Only from a research perspective...spinal tap is not a useful clinical

tool in the diagnosis of CMT but it may have some potential in distinguigshing

subtypes of CMT although this needs much more study before any conclusions can

be drawn. Reference is

Pareyson D, Testa D, Morbin M, Erbetta A, Ciano C, Lauria G, Milani M, Taroni F.

Does CMT1A homozygosity cause more severe disease with root hypertrophy and

higher CSF proteins? Neurology. 2003 May 27;60(10):1721-2. "

There isn't an abstract for this so I have asked my librarian to get me a full

text copy. We sure learn something new pretty often here, don't we?

Your moderator,

Gretchen