The clinical and neurophysiological features of 23 patients affected by essential cryoglobulinemia (EC) have been studied. It was possible to perform sural nerve biopsy in 3 cases. Six patients were found to be affected by a peripheral neuropathy, according to the WHO criteria, while in 8 other patients clinical and neurophysiological signs of a milder peripheral nervous system (PNS) involvement were evident. The incidence of PNS involvement seems to be high (60.9%). Neurophysiological and histological studies were indicative of a mainly axonal damage.

Peripheral nervous system involvement in essential cryoglobulinemia and nephropathy / G. Valli, A. De Vecchi, L. Gaddi, E. Nobile-Orazio, A. Tarantino, S. Barbieri. - In: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY. - ISSN 0392-856X. - 7:5(1989), pp. 479-83-483.

Peripheral nervous system involvement in essential cryoglobulinemia and nephropathy

G. Valli;E. Nobile-Orazio;
1989

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The clinical and neurophysiological features of 23 patients affected by essential cryoglobulinemia (EC) have been studied. It was possible to perform sural nerve biopsy in 3 cases. Six patients were found to be affected by a peripheral neuropathy, according to the WHO criteria, while in 8 other patients clinical and neurophysiological signs of a milder peripheral nervous system (PNS) involvement were evident. The incidence of PNS involvement seems to be high (60.9%). Neurophysiological and histological studies were indicative of a mainly axonal damage.
Demyelinating Diseases; Cryoglobulinemia; Humans; Electromyography; Action Potentials; Aged; Reflex, Stretch; Biopsy, Needle; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases; Paresthesia; Sural Nerve; Adult; Reflex, Abnormal; Middle Aged; Kidney Diseases; Female; Male
Settore MED/26 - Neurologia
1989
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