7/24/2020-  Dr. Justin Willer interviews Dr. Constantine Farmakidis on his article, Immunomodulatory and Immunosuppressive Therapy for Neuromuscular Disorders Part II. While traditional immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapies remain the cornerstone of immune-mediated neuromuscular disease management, new and novel agents including antigen-specific, monoclonal antibody drugs, have emerged as important treatment options. This article is the second of a two-part series that reviews immune-based therapies in neuromuscular diseases. The first article provides an update on the use of traditional immune-based therapies such as corticosteroids, plasma exchange, steroid-sparing immunosuppressive drugs, and intravenous immunoglobulin G. This second article focuses on new and novel immune-based therapies, including eculizumab, a complement inhibitor approved for acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive myasthenia gravis; rituximab, a B-cell depletion therapy with evolving indications in neuromuscular diseases; and the subcutaneous formulation of immunoglobulin G that gained approval for use in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy in 2018. Finally, several novel antigen-specific drugs at different stages of investigation in neuromuscular disease are also reviewed.    29 minutes