On Peripheral Neuritis

Pure neural Leprosy: A case report

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease endemic in Iran that mainly involves skin and peripheral nerves. Leprosy has several clinical forms. One of them is “Pure neural leprosy”. The diagnosis of this form is delayed due to lack of clinical signs in other tissues and can lead to permanent deformity. I will discuss my experience for 20 years in the diagnosis and treatment of this form of leprosy...

Peripheral Neuritis

Peripheral neuropathy associated with ethambutol.

A woman developed peripheral neuropathy and optic neuritis while receiving ethambutol in the retreatment of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. There was prompt improvement in peripheral neuropathy and the ocular symptoms following the withdrawal of the drug. The clinical events in this case suggest that occasionally symptoms of peripheral neuropathy may precede the development of optic neur...

Peripheral Neuritis

By the term Peripheral or Multiple Neuritis is meant an inflammation of the nerve-trunks after their exit from the cranial and intervertebral foramina. I propose to confine myself to those cases only in which many nerve-trunks are invaded progressively, and to the varieties of this large group of diseases of which I have here some instances. Excluding, then, altogether cases of neuritis limited...

Peripheral Neuritis

Peripheral neuropathy after disulfiram administration.

Peripheral neuropathy and optic neuritis occurring in alcoholics are sometimes due to the toxic effects of disulfiram rather than to alcohol. Unless this is considered in the management of such patients it is likely that administration of the drug will be continued. In the past there have been reports of 16 cases of peripheral neuropathy and six cases of optic neuritis, possibly caused in this ...