Professor, Neurology, West Virginia University School of Medicine

Neurology

Ludwig Gutmann practices Neurology. He went to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons is a top medical college. Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons has a rank of 8 in research and a 52 in primary care He over the years received 1 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Ludwig Gutmann is a published doctor. He published 100 publications, including: 'Small-cell carcinoma of the lung presenting with paraneoplastic peripheral nerve microvasculitis and optic neuropathy.' He accepts all Medicare patients.

Publications

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• Editorial by concerned physicians: Unintended effect of the orphan drug act on the potential cost of 3,4-diaminopyridine.
• Clinical Reasoning: A 47-year-old woman with left shoulder pain after a fall.
• Urinary Incontinence in Children as a Sign of Neurological Disorders: Need for a High Index of Suspicion.
• Pancytopenia related to dental adhesive in a young patient.
• An ambulatory neurology clerkship for third-year medical students. A 20-year perspective.
• Nosocomial acquisition of multiresistant Acinetobacter baumannii: risk factors and prognosis.
• Median--ulnar nerve communications and Carpal tunnel syndrome.
• The intramuscular nerve action potential.
• Muscle action potential precipitated complex repetitive discharge.
• Electrophysiology of acetylcholinesterase inhibition in myasthenia gravis.
• Analysis of the organophosphate-induced electromyographic response to repetitive nerve stimulation: two types of end-plate depolarization account for the two most comm...
• High pancuronium sensitivity of axonal nicotinic-acetylcholine receptors in humans during organophosphate intoxication.
• Acquired versus familial demyelinative neuropathies in children.
• Evolution of nerve conduction abnormalities in children with dominant hypertrophic neuropathy of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth type.
• A quantitative study of the pancuronium antagonism at the motor endplate in human organophosphorus intoxication.
• Further observations on all ulnar motor hand due to anomalous routing at the Brachial plexus.
• Rattlesnake venom-induced myokymia.
• Small-Cell carcinoma of the lung presenting with paraneoplastic peripheral nerve microvasculitis and optic neuropathy.
• RHEUMATOID PACHYMENINGITIS.
• Teaching NeuroImages: amnesia due to fornix infarction.
• Deteriorating parkinsonism and subdural hematomas.
• Methanol and the Brain.
• Myokymia in Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
• Transient facial myokymia.
• Picornavirus-like crystals in subacute polymyositis.
• Exercise-induced weakness in paramyotonia congenita: exacerbation with thyrotoxicosis.
• Lysosomal glycogen storage Disease without acid maltase deficiency.
• Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with decreased succinate-cytochrome c reductase activity.
• Calcium effect on generation and amplification of myokymic discharges.
• Myotonic dystrophy and normal-pressure hydrocephalus.
• Vitamin E-deficient spinocerebellar Syndrome due to intestinal lymphangiectasia.
• Target fibers in multiple sclerosis: implications for pathogenesis.
• Effect of Mg++ on neuromuscular transmission in the Eaton-Lambert Syndrome.
• The peripheral neuropathy of Krabbe''s (globoid) leukodystrophy.
• Intermittent defect of acetylcholine release in myasthenia gravis.
• The heterophile antibody and cerebrospinal fluid.
• Calcium and myokymia of Brainstem origin.
• Pompe''s Disease.
• Added qualification in clinical neurophysiology.
• Fusariosis, myasthenic Syndrome, and aplastic anemia.
• Cerebral vasculitis and ulcerative colitis.
• Timber rattlesnake venom-induced myokymia: evidence for peripheral nerve origin.
• Childhood onset inclusion body myositis mimicking limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
• Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potential monitoring in scoliosis.
• Myalgia.
• AIDS-related neuropathy.
• The Anterior interosseous nerve syndrome (case report and review of the literature).
• Medical student impairment: a review of the literature.
• Thymectomy in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.
• Dementia: an overview.
• Hypokalemic myopathy in hyperemesis gravidarum: its historical significance.
• Familial myalgic myopathy.
• Amnesia due to fornix infarction.
• Periodic paralyses.
• Electrodiagnosis of infantile botulism.
• Efficacy of obidoxime in human organophosphorus poisoning: determination by neuromuscular transmission studies.
• Electrophysiological features of vecuronium induced prolonged neuromuscular blockade.
• Current management of ALS: comparison of the ALS CARE Database and the AAN Practice Parameter. The American Academy of Neurology.
• Exercise-induced membrane failure in paramyotonia congenita.
• L-Dopa therapy of Parkinson''s Disease. (A review of the preliminary experience at West Virginia University).
• Prospective nerve conduction studies in cisplatin therapy.
• Spinal myoclonus following intrathecal administration of diatrizoate meglumine.
• Critical illness neuropathy and myopathy.
• [The decrement-increment phenomenon in Disorders of neuromuscular transmission by inhibition of acetylcholinesterase].
• Muscle involvement in the scleroderma Syndromes.
• [The repetitive muscular action potential in neuromuscular transmission Disorders due to acetylcholinesterase inhibition].
• Guillain-Barre syndrome. Another immune-mediated Disease with a predilection for young women?
• Boosting enrollment in neurology trials with Local Identification and Outreach Networks (LIONs).
• Pancuronium improves the neuromuscular transmission defect of human organophosphate intoxication.
• The contribution of median-ulnar communications in diagnosis of mild Carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Dapsone motor neuropathy--an axonal Disease.
• Organophosphate intoxication: pharmacologic, neurophysiologic, clinical, and therapeutic considerations.
• The devastating combination of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
• AAEM minimonograph #2: important anomalous innervations of the extremities.
• The abnormalities of the blink reflex in spinal cord infarction.
• Longitudinal conduction studies in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 1.
• Paradoxical lid elevation with sustained upgaze: a sign of Lambert-Eaton Syndrome.
• AAEM minimonograph #37: facial and limb myokymia.
• Trends in the association of Lambert-Eaton myasthenic Syndrome with carcinoma.
• Abduction-adduction hand Tremor of myokymia.
• Upper extremity ischemic monomelic neuropathy: a complication of vascular access procedures in uremic Diabetic patients.
• Pick's Disease: a case clinically resembling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Advances in ALS.
• Choreoathetotic movements: A possible side effect of gabapentin.
• Myotonia congenita.
• AAEM minimonograph #46: neurogenic muscle hypertrophy.
• Compression of spinal cord and cauda equina in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease type 1A.
• The dropped head Syndrome with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
• Persistent facial myokymia associated with K(+) channel antibodies.
• Acute type II myofiber atrophy in critical illness.
• Compressive sciatic neuropathy due to uterine Abnormality.
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage induces facial myokymia.
• Impaired neuromuscular transmission during partial inhibition of acetylcholinesterase: the role of stimulus-induced antidromic backfiring in the generation of the decr...
• MidBrain vs. pontine medial longitudinal fasciculus lesions: the utilization of masseter and blink reflexes.
• Intrapontine generation of myokymia in multiple sclerosis.
• Age and Guillain-Barré Syndrome severity.
• Lambert-Eaton myasthenic Syndrome with prominent postexercise exhaustion.
• Neuromyotonia and type I myofiber predominance in amyloidosis.
• Axonal channelopathies: an evolving concept in the pathogenesis of peripheral nerve Disorders.

Schools

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• Columbia University College of Physicians And Surgeons

• Mayo Grad School MedMayo Fndn

• University Of Wi Hospital and Cli

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)
• EMG (Electromyography)
• Nerve Block, Somatic
• Non-Cosmetic Chemodenervation

Conditions Treated

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• Acoustic Neuroma
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Anterior Horn Disease
• Ataxia
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Doctors Specialties

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• Clinical Neurophysiology
• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification

Education

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• Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education
• University of Wisconsin
• Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1083714786
NPPES Provider LastName		GUTMANN
NPPES Provider FirstName		LUDWIG
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		522421009
NPPES Provider State		IA
Specialty Description		Neurology
Total Claim Count		657.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1083714786
Last Name Of The Provider	GUTMANN
First Name Of The Provider	LUDWIG
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