DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Severe chronic neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy is the term for damage to nerves of the peripheral nervous system, which may be caused either by diseases of or trauma to the nerve or the side-effects of systemic illness. The four cardinal patterns of peripheral neuropathy are polyneuropathy, mononeuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex and autonomic neuropathy. The most common form is (symmetrical) peripheral polyneuropathy, which mainly affects the feet and legs. The form of neuropathy may be further broken down by cause, or the size of predominant fiber involvement, i.e. , large fiber or small fiber peripheral neuropathy...
Severe chronic neuropathy - List of case studies
- Cervical Disk Hernia_1
-
cervical spine and conduction studies that showed signs of severe chronic neuropathy, Lordosis, disc hernias with pressure on the dural sac and ...
- Multiple myeloma with renal involvement, bone lesions and Neuropathy
-
complications developed: Renal failure, Bone lesions and Neuropathy. questions: ... which showed vascular nephropathy associated with chronic parenchymal alterations (damage from cyclosporine) with limited ... and axonopathic in nature, distal and symmetrical, severe in the lower limbs ”. For these symptoms, at the ...
- Cervical Disk Hernia_3
-
C3-4 this is a herniated disc which results in very severe central stenosis and bilateral foraminal stenosis. At C4-5 there is ... reviewed. The report reads, “signs of severe chronic neuropathy in the patient’s muscles whose roots are C5-6 on the ...