Case A 72-year-old man presented to our hospital after ingesting insecticide containing approximately 2 mL/kg diethylene glycol, which exceeded the lethal dose of 1 mL/kg. The patient recovered from critical symptoms on acute phase until day 3, but received artificial ventilation for muscle weakness secondary to sensorimotor neuropathy on days 11-54. Outcome Even after marked improvement from...

intrODuctiOn The clinical presentation of acute unilateral visual loss in a young patient can be due to a number of conditions including possible retinopathy or optic neuropathy. Although demyelinating optic neuritis is the most common unilateral optic neuropathy to present in a young adult to a neuro-ophthalmologist, the possibility of acute retinopathy should also be in the differential diagn...

A case of acute thallium poisoning in a 67-year-old Chinese woman is described. She presented with acute pain in the chest, abdomen, and lower limbs. The diagnosis was not made, however, until alopecia developed. Detoxification treatment, which included Prussian blue (potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate) was then given, but further neurological damage occurred. The patient's motor function recove...

BACKGROUND Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) is an autosomal-dominant painless peripheral neuropathy characterized by episodes of repeated focal pressure neuropathies at sites of entrapment/compression, with a considerable variability in the clinical course. Electrodiagnostic and genetic testing are important in the diagnostic evaluation of these patients. CASE P...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the reported findings and clarify unknown clinical features of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS)-associated neuropathy and design appropriate treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS We assessed the clinical features of 6 patients with CSS-associated neuropathy. RESULTS Mononeuritis multiplex was present in 4 cases and polyneuropathy in the remaining cases. Both groups progressed to ...

Peripheral neuropathies are among the most common diseases encountered in clinical neurology. Autoimmunity and inflammation are implicated in a small but important group of peripheral nerve disorders because they are potentially treatable. These include the acute inflammatory neuropathies grouped under Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and the chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropat...