Subacute sensory neuropathy.

Subacute sensory neuropathy with remission: an association with lymphoma.

A case of subacute sensory neuropathy associated with Hodgkin's disease improved as the tumour was treated. The poor prognosis usually associated with this neuropathy may be attributable to its more common association with untreatable tumours.

Hereditary sensory neuropathy type

Hereditary sensory neuropathy type I (HSN I) is a slowly progressive neurological disorder characterised by prominent predominantly distal sensory loss, autonomic disturbances, autosomal dominant inheritance, and juvenile or adulthood disease onset. The exact prevalence is unknown, but is estimated as very low. Disease onset varies between the 2nd and 5th decade of life. The main clinical featu...

Subacute gestational neuropathy: role of thiamine deficiency.

A 28-year old woman was admitted to our hospital at 5 months of a pregnancy complicated by daily vomiting. At 3 months of pregnancy, she started experiencing paresthesias in the lower limbs followed by progressive ascending weakness. Two weeks before admission in our hospital, while she was receiving a course of parenteral rehydration (IV solution unknown), she developed Wernicke encephalopathy...

Subacute arsenic neuropathy: clinical and electrophysiological observations.

Two patients with subacute arsenic neuropathy are described and the results of serial conduction velocity determinations from the very early stages of the illness to partial recovery are reported. Sensory and motor deficits were maximal within four weeks of the estimated time of exposure. Recovery was slow, with only partial improvement of the neurological deficits two years after onset of the ...

Congenital sensory neuropathy.