Distal symmetrical polyneuropathy in a dog.

Risk factors for HIV-distal symmetrical polyneuropathy: A review

Objective: To review the risk factors of HIV distal symmetrical polyneuropathy. Methods: A MEDLINE search of the English-language literature using a combination of words (HIV, neuropathy, risk factors) was used to identify original studies, consensus statements, and reviews published in the last 20 years. Results: The various risk factors for HIV-distal symmetrical polyneuropathy. Conclusion: S...

Sensory Neuropathies Chronic Sensorimotor Distal Symmetrical Polyneuropathy

Effect of stavudine-based antiretroviral therapy on the severity of polyneuropathy in HIV/AIDS patients: a preliminary report from Zaria, Northern Nigeria.

BACKGROUND Stavudine, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, used as first-line antiretroviral drug in many developing countries is said to exacerbate distal symmetrical polyneuropathy in HIV/AIDS patients. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the severity of distal symmetrical polyneuropathy in HIV/AIDS patients on stavudine-based antiretroviral therapy. METHODS Two hundred and twenty consecutive ...

A case of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy presented with unilateral ptosis

  Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. The main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. Myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. Although both myasthenia grav...

A rare case of critical illness polyneuropathy and literature review

A 40- year-old Male was admitted to the first hospital of Jilin University with the complaint of 4 days of fever and headache and aggravation of weakness in his lower extremities accompanied with dysuria and disturbance of consciousness for one day. He had tachycardia, tachypnea and elevated white blood cell counts. General status of the patient got better day by day, while weakness and pain in...