Peripheral neuropathy is one of the most common types of neuropathy. There are two types of peripheral neuropathy: Demyelinating neuropathy and axonal neuropathy. Demyelinating neuropathy causes ...

Some neuropathies involve both demyelinating and axonal damage. For instance, although axonal loss is responsible for many of the symptoms of neuropathy in people with diabetes, demyelination can ...

Multifocal acquired demyelinating sensory and motor neuropathy (the Lewis–Sumner syndrome) has similarities to both chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (i.e., motor and sensory ...

The hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (also known as Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease or CMT) are characterized by a length-dependent loss of axonal integrity in the PNS, which leads to ...

Thus, the predominant pattern of neuropathy in our patients was of the axonal type. This is similar to a recent study, ... [5,6,7,8] where a demyelinating neuropathy was reported.

Paris: Sanofi has received orphan drug designation from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan for ...

In a 25-year study of 2,097 patients, 82 had SLE-specific peripheral neuropathy, which in 17.1% was diagnosed as a small-fiber rather than axonal neuropathy -- a finding that isn't even included ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) may be a rare disease, but it is one of the most common forms of neuropathy and the most common form of chronic autoimmune neuropathy ...

Mutations in the myelin protein zero (MPZ) gene have been associated with different Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) phenotypes, including classical demyelinating CMT1B and the axonal form of ...

Additional patterns that are highly suggestive of vasculitic neuropathy include rapidly progressive, painful polyneuropathy and multiple concurrent mononeuropathies (mononeuritis multiplex), where ...

There are many causes of painful sensory neuropathy ... and distinguishing axonal neuropathies (e.g., diabetic neuropathy) from demyelinating neuropathies. 6 Normal studies are consistent with ...

Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. It develops from a genetic mutation that causes your nerve cells to stop functioning. Doctors usually diagnose it in ...