Relapsing corticosteroid-dependent polyneuritis

Relapsing corticosteroid-dependent polyneuritis.

Three patients are described with chronic polyneuritis of unknown cause in whom a state of corticosteroid dependence developed. A fatal relapse occurred in one patient. No clinical, electrophysiological, or pathological features were found from which it would have been possible to predict this form of response to treatment.

Relapsing Polyneuritis

Toxic Polyneuritis

of Ten Cases Presenting Some Unusual Features By R. S. ALLISON, M.D., M.R.C.P.(LOND.), AND W. H. PATTERSON, M.D. NEURITIS is a common complaint and a term often loosely used to describe indefinite sensory symptoms. Polyneuritis or peripheral neuritis is, however, a definite entity and much less common. Harris (1) classifies its causes into four main groups (a) Caused by the absorption of poison...

Corticosteroid-dependent hypertension: environmental influences.

Hypertension is a major disease of later life affecting 25% of the adult population in the industrialized world with most hypertensive individuals diagnosed as having essential hypertension. Approximately one third of these patients have elevated blood pressure due to increased sodium and water retention by the kidney resulting in suppressed plasma renin and aldosterone concentrations with high...

Polyneuritis Complicating Herpes Zoster

A 47-year-old male bank clerk was admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary on 7th October i963. On admission he gave a history of anorexia for 2 weeks and left sided upper abdominal Pain for x week. Vesicles had been present over the painful area for 6 days. On the day before Emission he awoke in the morning and found that he had lost the use of all his limbs. There ^vere no bulbar symptoms. In ...