[S-35] Symposium 35 Disassemble "CIDP"! Reclassification of "CIDP" based on molecular autoimmune mechanism

[S-35-2] Reassemble polyneuropathy according to the ultrastructural characteristics

^○Haruki Koike (Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Haruki Koike, MD, PhD received his medical degree from the Tohoku University in Sendai and completed an internship in Kasugai Municipal Hospital in Aichi. He then completed Neurology residency in the Department of Neurology at Aichi Saiseikai Hospital. He then moved to postgraduate doctoral course in the Department of Neurology at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. His clinical and research interests include the clinicopathological and therapeutic aspects of various kinds of inflammatory and non-inflammatory neuropathies, including CIDP, Guillain-Barré syndrome, nutritional neuropathies, and familial amyloid polyneuropathy. In particular, he is interested in morphological aspects of inflammatory neuropathies and has described the electron microscopic features of CIDP with and without autoantibodies to paranodal junction proteins (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2017; 88: 465-73; Neurology 2018; 91: 1051-60). He is a director of Japanese Peripheral Nerve Society.