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- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Case 9 Guillain–Barré Syndrome (GBS) and Miller–Fisher Syndrome (MFS)
- Case 10 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Case 11 IgM Anti-MAG Polyneuropathy
- Case 12 Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrine Manifestations, Monoclonal Protein, and Skin Changes (POEMS) Syndrome
- Case 13 Vasculitic Neuropathy
- Case 14 Small-Fibre Neuropathy (SFN)
- Case 15 Sensory Neuronopathy (SNN, Ganglionopathy)
- Case 16 Wartenberg Migrant Sensory Neuropathy
- Case 17 Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN)
- Case 18 Peripheral Nerve Hyperexcitability Syndromes: Morvan Syndrome
- Case 19 Idiopathic Brachial Plexus Neuropathy, Neuralgic Amyotrophy (NA)
- Case 20 Diabetic Neuropathy
- Case 21 Alcoholic Polyneuropathy
- Case 22 Chronic Idiopathic Axonal Polyneuropathy (CIAP)
- Case 23 Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Myopathy (CIPM)
- Case 24 Drug-Induced Polyneuropathies: Amiodarone Polyneuropathy
- Case 25 Lyme Radiculopathy
- Case 26 Leprosy
- Case 27 Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease (CMT) Type 1A/Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability for Pressure Palsies (HNPP)
- Case 28 Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease (CMT) Type 2 A and Type 2B
- Case 29 Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy (HSAN) Type 4
- Case 30 Hereditary Transthyretin (TTR) Amyloidosis
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Case 20 - Diabetic Neuropathy
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2024
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Case 9 Guillain–Barré Syndrome (GBS) and Miller–Fisher Syndrome (MFS)
- Case 10 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Case 11 IgM Anti-MAG Polyneuropathy
- Case 12 Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrine Manifestations, Monoclonal Protein, and Skin Changes (POEMS) Syndrome
- Case 13 Vasculitic Neuropathy
- Case 14 Small-Fibre Neuropathy (SFN)
- Case 15 Sensory Neuronopathy (SNN, Ganglionopathy)
- Case 16 Wartenberg Migrant Sensory Neuropathy
- Case 17 Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN)
- Case 18 Peripheral Nerve Hyperexcitability Syndromes: Morvan Syndrome
- Case 19 Idiopathic Brachial Plexus Neuropathy, Neuralgic Amyotrophy (NA)
- Case 20 Diabetic Neuropathy
- Case 21 Alcoholic Polyneuropathy
- Case 22 Chronic Idiopathic Axonal Polyneuropathy (CIAP)
- Case 23 Critical Illness Polyneuropathy and Myopathy (CIPM)
- Case 24 Drug-Induced Polyneuropathies: Amiodarone Polyneuropathy
- Case 25 Lyme Radiculopathy
- Case 26 Leprosy
- Case 27 Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease (CMT) Type 1A/Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability for Pressure Palsies (HNPP)
- Case 28 Charcot–Marie–Tooth Disease (CMT) Type 2 A and Type 2B
- Case 29 Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy (HSAN) Type 4
- Case 30 Hereditary Transthyretin (TTR) Amyloidosis
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Summary
A 76-year-old man was referred with a diagnosis of ‘motor neuron disease’ or ‘polyneuropathy’. For about eight months he had noticed progressive muscle weakness in his right leg associated with pain, initially more intense than at referral, and a numb feeling around the right knee. Two years previously his left hand had become weak and wasted, associated with loss of sensation of the ring finger, the little finger, and the ulnar part of the palm of his hand. He had lost weight (5 kg) unintentionally over the past six months. He had always been very active, but was now no longer able to walk his dog or do some gardening. He was recently diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) for which oral antidiabetics were prescribed. Family history was unremarkable.
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- Neuromuscular DiseaseA Case-Based Approach, pp. 127 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024