background and aims . dentists administer thousands of local anesthetic injections every day. injection to a highly vascular area such as pterygomandibular space during an inferior alveolar nerve block has a high risk of intravascular needle entrance. accidental intravascular injection of local anesthetic agent with vasoconstrictor may result in cardiovascular and central nervous system toxicit...

Peripheral nerve trunk involvement is a common manifestation of leprosy, leading to impairments and disabilities. The ulnar nerve is the most commonly involved nerve in leprosy. Mycobacterium leprae exhibits a strong tropism for Schwann cells, ensheathing axons of the peripheral nervous system. This subsequently results in sensorimotor and autonomic dysfunction in leprosy patients. Researchers ...

Motor conduction velocity was measured in the median, ulnar and common peroneal nerves of 32 diabetics with clinical features of autonomic neuropathy. The responses to the Valsalva manoeuvre and sustained handgrip, and the postural fall in blood pressure were used to assess the integrity of the autonomic nervous system. Abnormalities in the three autonomic function tests were significantly corr...