PURPOSE OF REVIEW To summarize the current understanding of clinical assessment, pathophysiology, and treatment of pain in neuropathies, focusing on selected entities in which the understanding of the mechanisms underlying pain has advanced recently. RECENT FINDINGS Ongoing studies are classifying the symptoms and signs of painful neuropathies, assuming that this approach may indicate particu...

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and psychiatric illness are related in many ways by prevalence, burden, course, and outcome. Co-morbid mental illness may play a role in determining the complication in diabetic patients. This study was conducted in 2010 among consecutive diabetic out-patients diagnosed as per American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines 2009, of age above 14 years, to compare the compl...

Background and aims It is difficult to understand the various presentations of the diabetic ischaemic foot. The aim of the study was to investigate the clinical and angiological features of three presentations of the diabetic ischaemic foot: the painful ischaemic foot with tissue loss (group 1), the painful ischaemic foot with no tissue loss (group 2), and the painless ischaemic foot with tissu...