RT Journal
A1 CHAN CK, NATHANSON BN
T1 REspiratory muscle dysfunction in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1989
FD April 1
VO 149
IS 4
SP 972
OP 973
DO 10.1001/archinte.1989.00390040162044
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1989.00390040162044
AB lb the Editor.—We wish to congratulate Eichacker et al1 who, in the August issue of the Archives, presented an interesting clinical study on a selected cohort of patients with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN), type I. We are in full agreement with the authors that respiratory muscle dysfunction should be considered as part of the spectrum of neuromuscular involvement in HMSN. We also wish to point out that this association was previously described by Chan et al2 in April 1987. Detailed clinical, basic pulmonary physiologic, and advanced pulmonary physiologic documentation demonstrating phrenic-diaphragmatic impairment in two patients with HMSN, type I, were presented in that study. Subsequent to this description, Dyer and Callahan3 reported another patient in January 1987, and Laroche et al4 provided further evidence on two more patients in June 1988.The statement by Eichacker et al that "respiratory muscle deficit does not