Introduction Background: Bariatric surgery (BS) is a potential cause for malabsorption resulting in nutritional deficiency-related neuropathies and myelopathy. Citation: Ismail II, Yassin OM, Foad SS (2014) Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy mimicking subacute combined degeneration following bariatric surgery. J Neurol Neurol Disord 1(1): 104 . doi: 10.15744/24544981.1.104 Copper deficiency is a...

The authors present the initial and follow-up MR findings in a patient with subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, a complication of vitamin B12 deficiency, and a rare cause of demyelination of the dorsal and lateral columns of the spinal cord. Initial study showed high intensity in the dorsal columns of the cervical and thoracic spinal cord on T2-weighted image. Five months after t...

PURPOSE Subacute combined degeneration (SCD) involves progressive degeneration of the spinal cord, optic nerve, and peripheral nerves. Vitamin B12 (VB12) is a co-factor in myelin synthesis. Because each cell that constitutes the myelin component in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system is different, it is improbable that these cells undergo simultaneous degeneration. However,...

We report two cases of subacute combined degeneration. Both patients had undergone total gastrectomy. The chief complaints were numbness in both upper extremities in case 1 and numbness in both the upper and lower extremities and gait disturbance in case 2. The pain, temperature, and vibration senses of both patients were decreased. Laboratory examinations showed macrocytic anemia and a decreas...

The association of anaemia and gastro-intestinal abnormalities with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves has been recognized since the mid 19th century. In early reports interpretable as subacute combined degeneration, anaemia was overlooked, and conversely in Addison's and other early reports of pernicious anaemia, cord and nerve changes were not recorded. This paper show...

Lhermitte's sign is a common early symptom of subacute combined degeneration of the cord occurring in 11 out of 44 patients admitted to the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases during the decade 1962-71 with this diagnosis. Two patients, in both of whom it was the presenting complaint, are described in detail. It is concluded that, in these cases, Lhermitte's sign is due to stretching of dem...

OBJECTIVE Vitamin B12 deficiency is a systemic disease that often affects the nervous system. One of the most prevalent manifestations is subacute combined degeneration (SCD) of the spinal cord. To access the clinical, electrophysiological, and structural abnormalities associated with SCD, a study was conducted in nine patients. METHODS Clinical, electrophysiological (electroneurography, soma...

Introduction ROTHMANN (1906), Schroder (1908), and Schob (1931), published the early work on spontaneous lesions of the peripheral optic pathways in isolated cases of apes who died of a diffuse degenerative process in the white matter of the centrum ovale and (or) the spinal cord. These authors gave contradictory descriptions of the lesions in the optic pathways. Scherer (1932), who first recog...