Bus, S. R. M.
Broers, M. C.
Lucke, I. M.
Bunschoten, C.
van Lieverloo, G. G. A.
Adrichem, M. E.
van Veen, R.
Wieske, L.
Lingsma, H. F.
Goedee, H. S.
van der Pol, W. L.
van Schaik, I. N.
Van Doorn, P. A.
Jacobs, B. C.
Eftimov, F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-0776
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Funding for this research was provided by:
GBS/CIDP Foundation International
CSL Behring
Grifols
Article History
Received: 1 April 2021
Revised: 17 June 2021
Accepted: 17 June 2021
First Online: 26 June 2021
Declarations
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: SB reports no disclosures; MB reports report grants from the Dutch Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, during the conduct of the study; IL reports no disclosures; CB reports no disclosures; GvL reports no disclosures; MA reports no disclosures; RvV reports no disclosures; LW reports to have received research grants from Amsterdam UMC Neuroscience, Grifols and the GBS|CIDP Foundation for the study of disease activity biomarkers in CIDP; HL reports grants from the Dutch Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, during the conduct of the study; HG has received research support from Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, travel grants and speaker fee from Takeda/ShireHG report; WvdP reports; IvS chaired a steering committee for a CSL-Behring study investigating the safety and efficacy of SCIg in CIDP and received departmental honoraria for serving on scientific advisory boards for CSL-Behring and Kedrion. He received departmental research support from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and from the Dutch Prinses Beatrix Fonds. All lecturing and consulting fees for INS were donated to the Stichting Klinische Neurologie, a local foundation that supports research in the field of neurological disorders. He served on the editorial board of the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group, was a member of the organizing committee of the Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium (INC), a standing committee of the Peripheral Nerve Society and was a member of the Scientific Board of the Kreuth III meeting on the optimal use of plasma-derived medicinal products, especially coagulation factors and normal immunoglobulins organized under the auspices of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM); PvD reports grants from Takeda, during the conduct of the study; grants from Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, grants from Sanquin Blood Supply, grants from Grifols, other from Hansa, Annexion, Argenx, CSL, and Octapharma, outside the submitted work; BJ reports grants from Dutch Prinses Beatrix Spierfond, during the conduct of the study; grants from Dutch Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, Horizon 2020, GBS-CIDP Foundation International, Baxalta, Grifols, CSL Behring, Annexon and Hansa Biopharma outside the submitted work; FE reports grants from ZonMw (Dutch Governmental Agency), non-financial support from Sanquin Blood Supply, during the conduct of this study; He also reports grants from CSL Behring, Kedrion, Terumo BCT and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, outside the submitted work. Grants were paid to the institution and are used for investigator-initiated studies within INCbase, an international CIDP registry. In addition, he received a consultancy fee from UCB pharma, paid to the institution, outside the submitted work.
: Institutional review boards of all participating centers approved the study.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
: The authors are responsible for the correctness of the statements provided in the manuscript.