Nerve ultrasound can distinguish chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy from demyelinating diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy

Tan, Cheng Yin and Arumugam, Thaarani and Razali, Siti Nur Omaira and Yahya, Mohd Azly and Goh, Khean Jin and Shahrizaila, Nortina (2018) Nerve ultrasound can distinguish chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy from demyelinating diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 57. pp. 198-201. ISSN 0967-5868, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2018.08.031.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2018.08.031

Abstract

Diabetic patients with poor glycaemic control can demonstrate demyelinating distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy (D-DSP) on electrophysiology. Distinguishing D-DSP from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) can be challenging. In this study, we investigated the role of nerve ultrasound in differentiating the two neuropathies. Nerve ultrasound findings of D-DSP patients (fulfilling the electrophysiological but not clinical criteria for CIDP) were compared with non-diabetic CIDP patients (fulfilling both criteria). We studied 108 and 95 nerves from 9 D-DSP and 10 CIDP patients respectively. CIDP patients had significantly larger cross-sectional areas of the median nerve at the mid-arm (17.0 ± 12.5 vs 8.7 ± 2.6; p = 0.005), ulnar nerve at the wrist (7.3 ± 3.1 vs 4.1 ± 1.0; p = 0.001), mid forearm (8.8 ± 5.3 vs 5.5 ± 1.5; p = 0.002) and mid-arm (14.5 ± 14.1 vs 7.5 ± 1.9; p = 0.013), and radial nerve at mid forearm (4.1 ± 2.4 vs 1.2 ± 0.4; p < 0.001). In comparison to D-DSP, CIDP patients had markedly larger nerves at the proximal and non-entrapment sites of the upper limbs, suggesting that nerve ultrasound is useful in differentiating the two neuropathies.

Item Type: Article
Funders: University of Malaya [grant number BK074-2017]
Uncontrolled Keywords: Diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy; Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Nerve ultrasound; Demyelinating neuropathies; Immune-mediated neuropathies
Subjects: R Medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2019 01:42
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2019 01:42
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/20545

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