Quantitative electrophysiological study of alcoholic neuropathy.

Quantitative electrophysiological study of alcoholic neuropathy.

Thirty-one chronic alcoholic patients were investigated using quantitative electrophysiological techniques. Estimates of the numbers of functioning motor units in the extensor digitorum brevis muscles and measurements of the parameters of the potentials of these units are presented along with the values for motor nerve conduction velocities in the innervating lateral popliteal nerves. Motor con...

Rheumatoid neuropathy: a histological and electrophysiological study.

Peripheral nerves in five patients with rheumatoid neuropathy were examined electrophysiologically and by sural nerve biopsy. There was close correlation between the clinical severity of the disease and the degree of nerve damage found histologically and by EMG. Group 1 patients with a mild distal sensory neuropathy showed varying degrees of axonal degeneration in the large myelinated fibres an...

Vincristine neuropathy: an electrophysiological and histological study.

A quantitative electrophysiological study of uraemic neuropathy. Diabetic and renal neuropathies compared.

The numbers of functioning motor units and the parameters of the electrically evoked motor unit potentials in the extensor digitorum brevis muscles of 30 patients on chronic haemodialysis for renal failure were obtained using recently introduced quantitative electrophysiological techniques. Measurements of the distal motor latencies and motor nerve conduction velocities in the lateral popliteal...

Axonal dysfunction in the neuropathy of diabetes mellitus: a quantitative electrophysiological study.

The extent of axonal dysfunction in a group of patients with diabetes mellitus has been investigated using recently introduced quantitative techniques of electromyography. In 40 diabetic patients, estimates of motor unit numbers in the extensor digitorum brevis muscles and measurements of the parameters of electrically evoked motor unit potentials therein are presented, along with significant c...