Neuropathy

These authors conducted a cross-sectional and population-based study to examine rates of residual neuropathy and overall health consequences among 40 patients with prior Guillain-Barré Syndrome . . .

Obesity is a significant and growing problem in the developed world. With the failure of dietary interventions to treat morbid obesity successfully, bariatric surgery (BS) . . .

A cardinal tenet of clinical neurotoxicology is that most neurotoxic agents produce a consistent disease pattern, commensurate with the dose and exposure duration, particularly industrial . . .

Albers and Fink provide a complete overview of all the forms of peripheral neuropathy that can, on occasion, develop in association with certain types of . . .

Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is an immune-mediated disorder characterized by slowly progressive, asymmetric, predominantly distal weakness without sensory loss. Van Asseldonk and colleagues comprehensively review . . .

Other than tight glycemic control, no evidence-based treatments currently exist that prevent or ameliorate diabetic neuropathy. These authors studied the effects of potentially modifiable vascular . . .

Are electrodiagnostic and ultrasound studies useful for predicting the outcomes of treatment of ulnar neuropathy at the elbow? To answer this and related questions, researchers . . .

Schroeder and colleagues provide a single, partially industry-supported case report of a man with a 20-year history of progressive autonomic neuropathy that was manifest as . . .

Researchers describe a symmetric, non–length-dependent pain syndrome that may be caused by a dorsal root ganglion disorder.

This study characterizes these rare complications of cancer and examines their morphologic differences.

Additional evidence suggests it may not be.

Careful pupil examination detects abnormalities with varying prevalence in several neuropathic disorders.

That there is some benefit seems clear, but the modest improvement underscores the need for better treatments.

Clinical results have disappointed, but new developments are promising.

The pathologic mechanism may differ from that in other autoimmune demyelinating neuropathies.

Researchers performed a multicenter study of the clinicopathologic features of neuropathy associated with primary Sjögren syndrome (SS) in 92 patients (76 women).

Neuropathy, a common problem in the general population, often is approached by the clinician with some diagnostic pessimism: in up to 50% of patients with . . .

The acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) typically is seen after infection with Campylobacter jejuni, which contains a terminal polysaccharide . . .

Researchers tested the diagnostic value of high-resolution sonography (HRS) in the evaluation of 136 arms (of 123 patients) that had evidence of ulnar neuropathy at . . .

Few studies have focused on neuropathy complicating severe hepatic failure. In this study, investigators evaluated somatic and autonomic nerve function in 42 patients with end-stage . . .