The majority of foot ulcers appear to result from minor trauma in the presence of sensory neuropathy. This best describes the critical triad most commonly seen in patients with diabetic foot ulcers: peripheral sensory neuropathy, deformity, and trauma. All three of these risk factors are present in 65% of diabetic foot ulcers. Calluses, edema, and peripheral vascular disease have also been iden...

Background: Sensory nerve damage is the earliest leprosy sign which can lead to disability. Previous studies showed that autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) perineural blind injection stimulate sensory regeneration. Our study provided a safer and more accurate PRP agent delivery method through ultrasound-guided was first compare versus standard neuropathy treatment, neurotropic vitamin. This ...

Two HIV infected patients presented with peripheral neuropathy, in one patient this was originally ascribed to HIV associated mononeuritis multiplex and in the other to stavudine. Investigations confirmed these diagnoses and in both cases genetic analysis identified a second hereditary aetiology: in the first patient hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies and in the second her...

Recent literature points to postviral sensory neuropathy as a possible cause for refractory chronic cough. Vagal neuropathy may affect the sensory branches, inducing chronic cough or laryngospasm. Although the clinical presentation is fairly well described, there is little in the way of diagnostic criteria to establish this diagnosis. This article highlights the clinical picture of this disease...

A case of subacute sensory neuropathy associated with Hodgkin's disease improved as the tumour was treated. The poor prognosis usually associated with this neuropathy may be attributable to its more common association with untreatable tumours.

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) having neuropathic symptoms, and to investigate the relationship between electrophysiological findings of peripheral neuropathy and clinical findings of RA. METHODS Patients with a clinical diagnosis of RA and who had tingling or burning sensation in any extremity were electrophysiologically...

Correspondence to: Dr Kimihiro Nakamura, Department of Neurology, Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, 2-10-39 Shibata, Kitaku, Osaka 530, Japan. 1 Holtzman RNN, Zablozki V, Yang WC, Leeds NE. Lateral pontine tegmental hemorrhage presenting as isolated trigeminal sensory neuropathy. Neurology 1 987;37:704-6. 2 Kaneko K, Yuasa T, Miyatake T. Pontine infarction manifesting as isolated trigeminal sen...

Peripheral neuropathies occur in lymphoma patients. Causes of neuropathy include chemotherapy, opportunistic infections, and the lymphoma itself. We report a patient with lymphoma whose chief complaint was a sensory loss in the hands and feet. Electrophysiologic studies and sural nerve biopsy showed sensory polyneuropathies. We hypothesize that this neuropathy is associated with lymphoma-relate...

Electroneurophysiological studies were performed in 15 patients with familial amyloid neuropathy (ages 29 to 67 years) and in 16 symptom-free members of affected families (ages 9 to 64 years). These studies included needle EMG, motor conduction velocities of deep peroneal and median nerves, sensory conduction velocities, sensory potentials, and nerve potentials of the sural and medium nerves. R...