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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathies
A clinical and electro physiologic understanding
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Diabetic Neuropathy
General:
Prevalence – 30 to 50%DiabCare Asia Statistics – 37%Diabetic State is the triggerUncontrolled diabetes – worsens over timeGood control of diabetes - not the guarantee
for – cure, arrest, reversal
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 1
Major divisions• Symmetric Sensorimotor Diabetic
polyneuropathy• Lumbosacral plexus neuropathy• Truncal racdiculopathies• Diabetic mononeuropathiesInvariably associated with some autonomic
nervous system involvement and / or cranial neuropathies
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 2
• Incidence of neuropathic symptoms many times more and more sites are involved than in non diabetic persons
• Autonomic neuropathy has diabetes as almost the sole major cause, other than ageing or smoking
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 3
• Sensory symptoms and signs distally, numbness or paresthesia
• Ascends from toes• Glove and Stocking anesthesia - a
phenomenon dependent on fiber length
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 4
• Generally or eventually symmetric, • Initially, not infrequently, asymmetric, often
confined to single nerves• Tear drop abdominal thoracic anesthesia,
somewhat unusual presentation, not rare
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 5
More severe cases –• Paresthesia tingling and numbness,• Dysesthesia, ???• Deep, aching, severe night pains• Paroxysmal jabbing pain• Pain – small fiber neuropathy
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 6
More severe cases –
• Pain & temp loss with intact vibration and position sense; the reflexes and power may be normal – suggests A delta or thin, unmyelinated fiber involvement sparing large fibers of somatic sensation
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 7
Dominantly Large fiber Sensory and motor involvement
Sensory Neuropathy – Symptoms, positive or negative,
Loss of light touch, pain, pressure, Post columns get involved vibration
perception, joint position sensation is lost Diabetic pseudotabes occursLarge fibers intact - NCV – nearly normal
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 8
Dominantly Large fiber involvement – Sensory and motor involvement
Muscle weakness Intrinsic foot muscle - extensors and flexors
of toes, weakness, atrophy and foot drop, foot deformities due to motor neuropathy
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 9
• Once established, stays• Exacerbates with other illnesses, • Neuropathic joints suggestive of autonomic neuropathy, usually accompanied
by dense sensory neuropathy and other tissue changes, as well as altered joint structure
• Painless foot ulcers suggestive of severe sensory neuropathy
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy - 10
• Severe painful neuropathy causes depression• Diabetic neuropathic cachexias• Severe exacerbations of burning pains, allodynia ie excessive pain sensation to non
noxious stimuli with sensory deficits, anoxexia, weight loss, depression• Generally recovers
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Hyperglycemic Neuropathy
• Widespread parasthesias in newly diagnosed cases, after recovery from ketosis
• Improve rapidly with control, could have a different pathophysiologic basis than the one with long term complications
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Proximal Motor Neuropathy - 1
• Peaks in 6th decade in type 2• Diabetes mild• Control not good• Acute / sub acute pain• Pelvic girdle weakness and atrophy,
illiopsoas and quadriceps, hip adductor gluteni, namstrings
• Knees buckle, stairs difficult
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Proximal Motor Neuropathy - 2
• Sensory symptoms present. • Commonly – paresthesias, deep aches, ↑
at night, not relieved by rest, SLR neg.• Unilateral, may become bilateral • Reflexes Lower Limbs +• Recovery usual and nearly full• Takes 6 – 18 months• Reassurance necessary
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Thoracic Radiculopathy: - 1
• Middle aged mild diabetics• Acute herpes like deep ache• Multiple segment, single, bilateral, or
unilateral• Paresthesia, cutaneous hyper sensitivity• Severe cases show paraspinal and
abdominal muscle weakness
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Thoracic Radiculopathy: 2
• Imagings normal• Waste of money• Recovers with a few months to an year• Left sided pains disturbing as cardiac• Pains could be as such disturbing• Electromyography shows – Acute denervation, insertional hyperactivity
and fibrillation potentials
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Diabetic Mononeuropathy: 3
Also called Diabetic Mononeuropathy MultiplexProbably closure of vasa nervorum the cause• Focal necrotic pathological changesOr entrapment mononeuroathy, supposedly
more common in daibetes, e. g, carpal tunnelTrauma to superficial nervesDistal polyneuropathies can be super imposed
on Mononeuropathy multiplex
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Understanding Electromyography
And
Nerve Conduction Velocity
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EMG and NCV - 1
• Uses surface and needle electrodes, calculated electrical current is delivered to the sensory and motor nerves,
• Creates action potentials in sensory and motor nerves that are measurable
• The amplitude of these potentials is measured by using microprocessor based technology
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EMG and NCV - 2
• The current generated by action potentials also carries impulses with velocities that are measurable
• Specific changes in sensory or motor nerves or primary muscle changes can be detected thereby localizing diagnosis
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Electrophysiology Diagnosis - 1
EMG and NCV measure only the large myelinated, fast conducting fibers
• Conduction velocities are indicative of the integrity or otherwise of the individual functioning or malfunctioning nerve fiber
• Amplitude is indicative of the fiber number that is present and functioning,
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Electrophysiology Diagnosis - 2
Conduction velocity of a fiber depends on fiber size, state of myelination, nodal and internodal length and axonal resistanceSynchronous velocities indicate healthy fibersAsynchronous – malfunctioning or unhealthy
fibers
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Electrophysiology Diagnosis - 3
Reduction in axon number results in reduced amplitude of action potentials
EMG measures cumulative amplitude arising from all the functioning or firing axons
Number is reduced due to – Dead or dying axons- Dying ones cause fibrillations, fasciculations
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Pathology of Peripheral Nerves
• Metabolic hypothesis:• ↑ Sorbitol, ↓ myoinositol, ↓ ATP and 1, 3, 4 PIs• Nonenzymatic glycation of proteins• Abnormal flow along the nerve fibers of proteins• Ischemic insult due to vasa nervorum closure• Nerve hypoxia, oxidant stress• Necrotising or simple vasculitis, angiitis
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Management of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: 1
• Hyperglycemia, (I.V. Insulin)• Aldose reductase inhibitors
– Orlestatin, sorbinil– Moderate to good improvement with sorbinil,
on EMG, NCV also• Hypersensitivity with sorbinil
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Management of Painful Diabetic Polyneuropathy: 2
• Analgesic, normoglycemia• Phenytoin, carbomazepine – Indians feel
beeter. West not enthusiastic• Amitryptiline 150 mg a day – hyperesthesia
helped as also depression • Gabapentin useful, costly, high doses