Relapsing Polyneuritis

Relapsing 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.

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...

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 ...

Polyneuritis in Haemochromatosis.

Case Report A male taxi-driver, aged forty-seven, was admitted to the Dorset County Hospital on 7.9.60. He was a diabetic of five years standing on I8o g. of carbohydrate and 8o units of lente insulin daily. Following an attack of diarrhaea and vomiting he gave a five days' history of increasing weakness in the legs. Examination. He was thin, slightly icteric, with sparse axillary and pubic hai...