OBJECTIVE To compare nerve conduction parameters in asymptomatic diabetic patients and with no clinical signs of neuropathy and in control subjects. METHODS Forty-eight diabetic Saudi subjects (20 males, 28 females) and 48 age-and-sex-matched control subjects were studied. The mean age of patients +/- standard deviation was 45.6+/-11.7 years. The mean duration of diabetes from time of diagnos...

case presentation here, we report the case of a 35-year-old man complaining of bilateral incomplete eye closure, two weeks after a closed head injury caused by a motor vehicle accident. introduction although bilateral facial nerve palsy is a rare condition, its etiology is more detectable than the unilateral type. a temporal bone fracture is one cause of bilateral facial nerve palsy, contributi...

purpose: to determine the distribution of oculomotor, abducens, and trochlear nerve palsies in diabetic patients with ocular nerve palsy. methods: this study was performed on all diabetic patients who referred to ophthalmology and neurology clinics at yazd medical science university because of ocular palsy from march 2004 to october 2005. signs and symptoms of the disorder were evaluated. resul...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships among muscle weakness, foot deformities, and peroneal and tibial nerve conduction velocity in diabetic and nondiabetic men. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A neuropathic and foot evaluation was undertaken in 10 nondiabetic control subjects (group C) and in 36 consecutive diabetic patients attending Diabetes Centre clinics, including 10 diabetic control subje...

INTRODUCTION Peripheral nerve vasculitis is an important condition which can be diagnostically challenging and is one of the principal current indications for nerve and muscle biopsy. Previous studies have suggested that combined nerve and muscle biopsy (usually of the superficial peroneal nerve and peroneus brevis muscle) produces a higher diagnostic yield than nerve biopsy alone in the invest...

OBJECTIVE Establishing reference values for neuroconduction studies regarding the peroneal, tibial and sural nerves in a group of young adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS Neuroconduction was tested (also known as nerve conduction velocity (NCV) tests) on 155 asymptomatic subjects' tibial, peroneal and sural nerves using current conventional techniques, after informed written consent had been obtai...

BACKGROUND This study tested the hypothesis that the high incidence of ventricular arrhythmias caused by hypothalamic stimulation during acute myocardial ischemia could be attenuated by afferent nerve stimulation and investigated the cardiac mechanisms for those effects. METHODS AND RESULTS In 18 anesthetized dogs, stimulating electrodes were implanted in the hypothalamus and in the isolated ...