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On needle EMG of the abductor pollicis brevis (APB), you observe positive sharp waves and fibrillation potentials at rest, decreased recruitment, and long-duration polyphasic motor unit action potentials (MUAPs) with high amplitude. Which is the most likely underlying process?
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Chronic neurogenic process with active denervation and reinnervation

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