A 23-year-old woman with juvenile-onset α-mannosidosis developed an axonal polyneuropathy more than a year following successful unrelated donor (URD) BMT complicated by chronic graft-versus-host ...

Neurons of both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) are highly polarized complex cellular units. During development, several morphological steps are required for ...

What is the recommended approach to managing a patient infected with hepatitis C virus who has been on combination interferon and ribavirin therapy and who has developed peripheral neuropathy?

Thirty-three patients with liver cirrhosis were investigated clinically and electrophysiologically. Nerve-conduction abnormalities were present in 24 (73%) patients compared with 71% reported in a ...

Giant axonal neuropathy is an inherited condition involving dysfunction of a specific type of protein in nerve cells (neurons). The condition is characterized by abnormally large and dysfunctional ...

"Alterations in axonal membrane and channel function occur early in the disease course, prior to discernable large fibre involvement, and has the potential to be used as an early biomarker of ...

Critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy are frequent complications of severe illness that involve sensorimotor axons and skeletal muscles, respectively. Differentiating critical ...

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WOBURN, Mass., March 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeuroMetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NURO) today reported the recent publication of three additional DPNCheck clinical studies. DPNCheck is a point-of-care test ...