The results of azathioprine therapy in five patients with chronic progressive or relapsing idiopathic inflammatory polyneuropathy are described. In four patients a sustained improvement followed treatment and in the other patient azathioprine successfully replaced corticosteroid therapy. The improvement was often delayed for up to three months. The literature on the use of azathioprine in chron...

Polyneuropathy means a lot of diseases affecting peripheral nerves showing roughly the same areas on both sides of the body, featuring weakness, numbness, and burning pain [1]. Pathogenesis causing polyneuropathy usually begins in the hands and feet and progresses to the arms and legs [1]. Sometimes it can involve other parts of the body such as the autonomic nervous system. Uncountable causes ...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of ataxic polyneuropathy in an endemic area in south west Nigeria has been attributed to exposure to cyanide from cassava foods. However, it has been shown that the prevalence of ataxic polyneuropathy is not high in several communities in the tropics where exposure to cyanide from cassava foods is high. OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of ataxic polyneuropathy i...

Four cases of toxic polyneuropathy due to glue-sniffing were reported. Neurological examination revealed motor predominant mixed type polyneuropathy. The cause of polyneuropathies in these cases was considered to be due to the inhalation of the vaporized elements of the adhesive agent, which contain mainly n-hexane and toluene. N-hexane is considered to be chiefly responsible for the polyneurop...

Polyneuropathy is a rare but possible manifestation of severe hyperthyroidism. The patient reported here developed a polyneuropathy affecting mostly leg muscles (Basedow's paraplegia) during the course of severe thyrotoxicosis. The polyneuropathy was confirmed with sequential electrophysiological studies of nerves and muscles and by muscle biopsy. The involvement of the proximal leg muscle is a...

We describe a 64-year-old man with scrub typhus who presented with both polyneuropathy and cerebral infarction. A eurological examination revealed a confused mental state, stiff neck, hearing impairment, symmetric weakness, sensory loss, and ataxia. Electrophysiologic studies showed demyelinating sensorimotor polyneuropathy and sensorineural hearing loss. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed...

The increase in the number and life expectancy of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) worldwide determines high prevalence late complications diabetes, including diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN), most common type polyneuropathy. Oxidative stress is considered main reason for cellular pathology development mellitus, which use antioxidants DPN treatment. Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), a natural fat-solub...

mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalo-myopathy (mngie) is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by thymidine phosphorylase (tp) gene mutation. here we report a patient with mngie in whom sensorimotor polyneuropathy was the first presenting symptom and had a fluctuating course. this 26-year-old female patient developed acute-onset demyelinating polyneuropathy from the age of 6 with t...

INTRODUCTION AND METHODS We report 20 patients aged 18-24 years from Latvia with diphtheritic polyneuropathy. All lived in a closed community and 80% were known to have been fully vaccinated against diphtheria until at least 14 years old. Diphtheria antitoxin had been administered within 3 days of the onset of upper respiratory tract infection in 16 patients and 15 received antibiotics. RESUL...