Immune-Mediated Myopathies and Neuropathies

​Dr. Balan Louis Gaspar is the Founder and Director of NextGenPath Diagnostics which provides state-of-the-art Histopathology services in India. He is the first in the country to super-specialize in the field of Histopathology (DM Histopathology) from the prestigious Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. Of note, he had established the neuromuscular lab during his three-year DM residency. He was awarded the prestigious "Prof. Subhash Kumari Gupta Memorial Gold Medal" in his postgraduation (MD Pathology) from the same institute. Apart from his sound knowledge in the field of diagnostic histopathology, he has profound experience in ancillary techniques such as immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, electron microscopy, conventional and advanced molecular techniques such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), Sanger sequencing, and next-generation sequencing (NGS). He has more than 40 scientific papers in peer-reviewed indexed national and international journals to his credit. His recent textbook "Myopathology - A Practical Clinico-pathological Approach to Skeletal Muscle Biopsies" Springer Publications, 2019 has been well received in the academic and research community. He is one of the few in the country to have expertise in muscle and nerve biopsy interpretation. He has been a guest faculty in national and international conferences and an active member of several scientific societies.

Section I: Immune-Mediated Myopathies.- 1.Introduction to immune-mediated myopathies.- 2.Diagnostic evaluation of immune-mediated myopathies.- 3.Classification of immune-mediated myopathies.- 4.Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.- 5.Specific forms of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies.- 6.Overlap myositis.- 7.Vasculitic myopathy.- 8.Sarcoid myopathy.- 9.Paraproteinemia associated myopathy.- 10.AntiAMA-M2 myopathy.- 11.Paraneoplastic myopathy.- 12.Mimics of immune-mediated myopathy.- 13.Current concepts and future prospects in immune-mediated myopathies.- Section II: Immune-Mediated Neuropathies.- 14. Introduction to immune-mediated neuropathies.- 15. Diagnostic evaluation of immune-mediated neuropathies.- 16. Classification of immune-mediated neuropathies.- 17.Immune-mediated demyelinating neuropathies.- 18.Immune-mediated axonal neuropathies.- 19. Mimics of immune-mediated neuropathy.- 20. Current concepts and future prospects in immune-mediatedneuropathies.