Keywords Leprosy, leprosy diagnosis, leprosy neuropathy, leprosy reaction, leprosy neuritis Introduction Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae ( M. leprae ), an acid-fast, Gram-positive, rod-shaped,…
Keywords Toxic neuropathy, cisplatin, vincristine, paclitaxel, chloroquine, metronidazole, nitrofurantoin, colchicine, thalidomide, pyridoxine, hexane, organophosphates, thallium, arsenic, buckthorn Introduction In a sense, all peripheral nervous system (PNS) disorders caused by…
Keywords Guillain-Barré syndrome, flaccid paralysis, demyelinating, axonal, neuropathy, pediatric, tick paralysis Introduction The acute polyneuropathies are a group of acquired, generally immune-mediated or infectious disorders causing dysfunction and sometimes…
Keywords Inherited metabolic diseases, sphingolipidoses, glycoproteinoses, amino acids, fatty acids, mitochondrial diseases, peroxisomal diseases, lipids, glycogen storage diseases, Leigh disease Introduction Peripheral neuropathy is associated with numerous inherited metabolic…
Keywords Pediatric, infantile, peripheral neuropathy, demyelination, axonal, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Dejerine-Sottas disease, congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy Introduction The congenital and infantile neuropathies are an uncommon and complex group of conditions with…
Keywords Neuropathy, mononeuropathy, pediatric, median, ulnar, peroneal, tibial, sciatic Introduction Mononeuropathies are rare in children, accounting for fewer than 10% of pediatric referrals for electromyographic (EMG) testing. This is…
Keywords Peripheral neuropathy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, electromyography Introduction The term peripheral neuropathy refers to a disorder affecting one or more components of the peripheral nervous system, specifically axons,…
Keywords Alacrima, anhidrosis, autonomic dysfunction, baroreflex failure, congenital insensitivity to pain, familial dysautonomia (FD), hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN), insensitivity to pain, orthostatic hypotension Introduction The hereditary sensory…
Keywords CMT, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP), HNPP, distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN), distal spinal muscular atrophy (dSMA), PMP22, CMT1, CMT2, CMT4, CMTX, MPZ, Connexin…
Keywords Asymmetric crying facies, Bell’s palsy, blink responses, brainstem, facial EMG, facial nerve, facial microsomia, Lyme disease, Moebius syndrome Introduction Facial palsy is one of the most frequent mononeuropathies…
