Objective Diabetes mellitus is a known risk factor for polyneuropathy, but the role of pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the role of these factors in a ...

Length-dependent diabetic polyneuropathy does not show any trend towards improvement, and either relentlessly progresses or remains relatively stable over a number of years. Conversely ...

Nerve biopsy findings in length-dependent diabetic polyneuropathy. 1 μm-thick sections of superficial peroneal nerve biopsy specimens of two insulin-dependent diabetic patients in their 30s with ...

Copyright: © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a prevalent, disabling disorder. The most common manifestation is distal ...

Copyright: © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a prevalent, disabling disorder. The most common manifestation is distal ...

The symptoms, and slowing of nerve conduction, are rapidly reversed by improving glucose control. Diabetic symmetric distal polyneuropathy with autonomic neuropathy This is the most common diabetic ...

Its presenting symptoms may be similar to other conditions affecting the nervous system, which include motor neuron disease, diabetic polyneuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Generally ...

Idiopathic sensory-motor polyneuropathy is an illness where sensory and motor nerves of the peripheral nervous system are affected and no obvious underlying etiology is found. In many respects, the ...

Forty-five subjects with long-standing type 2 diabetes mellitus and length-dependent distal symmetric polyneuropathy were randomized to a 24-week clinical trial conducted to determine whether a ...

and may progress to typical diabetic polyneuropathy. However, in a significant percentage of patients, no underlying etiology is found and the patients have idiopathic SFSN. A small percentage of ...

Background It is believed that genetic factors play a role in the development and severity of neural injury among people with distal symmetrical polyneuropathy (DSP), because some genes are involved ...