Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Differential diagnosis of polyneuropathies in diabetes mellitus
Diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN) is heterogeneous in its clinical course and clinical manifestations. Depending on the primary lesion of large or small nerve fibers, different onset, course and clinical manifestations of polyneuropathy are possible.
V. N. Khramilin
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Inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy after total hip arthroplasty
Inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is a rare but devastating condition. Guillain-Barré syndrome is the most common cause with acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy being the most common subtype that follows a monophasic course and does ...
Shane R. Hess, DO +3 more
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Follow-up study of sensory-motor polyneuropathy in Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic subjects after simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation and after graft rejection [PDF]
The influence of successful simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation on peripheral polyneuropathy was investigated in 53 patients for a mean observation period of 40.3 months. Seventeen patients were followed-up for more than 3 years.
A. Abendroth +16 more
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Polyneuropathies (peripheral neuropathies) are the most common type of disorder of the peripheral nervous system in adults, and specifically in the elderly, with an estimated prevalence of 5-8%, depending on age. The options for treatment depend on the cause, which should therefore be identified as precisely as possible by an appropriate diagnostic ...
Claudia, Sommer +5 more
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Could spinal canal compression be a cause of polyneuropathy?
Causality between spinal cord compression and polyneuropathy is difficult to define, especially under the circumstances that polyneuropathy can have many causes. Seven patients with spinal cord compression and electrophysiological signs of polyneuropathy
Richard Bostelmann +3 more
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Comparison of diagnostic value of nerve conduction studies and F-wave in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy: a retrospective cross-sectional study [PDF]
Background: Diagnosis of polyneuropathy is typically made using sensory and motor nerve conduction studies (NCS). These tests include measurement of amplitude, velocity, and delay of sensory and motor waves. These waves cannot assess the entire length of
Zahra Gorji, Hamid Azadeh
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Background: Vincristine polyneuropathy is a major neurotoxic complication of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children. A close relationship between genetic variants in candidate genes associated with the vincristine neurotoxicity in various
Oksana V. Koryakina +5 more
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Polyneuropathy: how to diagnose?
Identifying the causes of polyneuropathy is a challenging clinical problem. Patients are often diagnosed with "polyneuropathy of unknown origin". At the same time, the etiological treatment of polyneuropathy is the most effective.
L. T. Akhmedzhanva
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Severe acute axonal neuropathy following treatment with arsenic trioxide for acute promyelocytic leukemia: a case report [PDF]
Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of arsenic toxicity. Symptoms are usually mild and reversible following discontinuation of treatment. A more severe chronic sensorimotor polyneuropathy characterized by distal axonal-loss neuropathy can be ...
Kuhn, Marcus +3 more
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