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- Title
Electrophysiological course of uraemic neuropathy in haemodialysis patients.
- Authors
Ogura, T.; Makinodan, A.; Kubo, T.; Hayashida, T.; Hirasawa, Y.
- Abstract
The objective of this study was to confirm electrophysiologically both the presence and course of uraemic neuropathy in haemodialysis patients. Nerve conduction studies of the lower extremities were done in 70 haemodialysis patients and 20 normal volunteers. Compared with that in normal volunteers, the distal motor latency in the tibial nerve of patients was prolonged significantly (p<0.05), and the minimal F wave latency in the tibial nerve was also prolonged significantly (p<0.05). Motor conduction velocity in the tibial nerve was reduced significantly (p<0.05), and sensory nerve conduction velocity in the medial plantar nerve also was reduced significantly (p<0.05). These results suggest the presence of uraemic neuropathy in haemodialysis patients. Twenty patients were investigated by a follow up study five years later. Parameters from F wave conduction studies, which were thought to be the most useful in the evaluation of neuropathy, showed no significant differences between the initial and follow up trials. These observations suggest that uraemic neuropathy does not progress during haemodialysis. These results also suggest that most haemodialysis patients showed electrophysiological evidence of uraemic neuropathy, but no remarkable electrophysiological change in uraemic neuropathy during haemodialysis was recognised.
- Subjects
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPATHY; HEMODIALYSIS patients; TIBIAL nerve; THERAPEUTICS; ALTERNATIVE medicine; CHRONIC kidney failure complications; HEMODIALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL method; PERIPHERAL neuropathy; NEURAL conduction; REACTION time; UREMIA; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2001, Vol 77, Issue 909, p451
- ISSN
0032-5473
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1136/pmj.77.909.451