PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY Flashcards
Nerve Fibers Types
Nerve FIBER SUSCEPTIBILITY
🧠⚡MOST SUSCEPTIBLE: PALAC helps to raise HB ⚡
🧠⚡ POL⚡
Pressure a > b > c
Hypoxia b > c > a
Local Anaesthesia c > b > a
Ascending TRACTS
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON CAUSE of MONONEUROPATHY
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
CTS in MALE is ASSOCIATED with
Amyloidosis
✨CTS in Female is MORE COMMON
Causes of CTS
🧠⚡MEDIAN TRAP ⚡
Site of COMPRESSION of Nerves in MONONEUROPATHY
Entrapment Neuropathies are seen commonly in
MEDIAN TRAP
Diabetes
Myxedema
Acromegaly
Amyloidosis
Hereditary Neuropathies susceptible to Pressure palsy
Pregnancy
Rheumatoid arthritis
Multiple MONONEUROPATHIES/ Mononeuritis MULTIPLEX
Involvement of multiple nerves without any organization or association
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON CAUSE of MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX
LEPROSY
Causes of MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX
🧠⚡WARDS PLC ⚡
All MONONEUROPATHY and MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX are AXONAL except
🧠⚡ MAX: MCD⚡
Demyelinating conditions:
✨ Multi focal motor neuropathy with Conduction block MMN-CB
✨ Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON TYPE OF NEUROPATHY
POLYNEUROPATHY
Cause of Polyneuropathy
🧠⚡DANG THERAPIST ⚡
LARGE FIBER NEUROPATHY
involves A alpha
➕
A BETA fibers damage
Motor activity affected
Reflexes LOST
Proprioception lost
⭐ Vibration lost
Fine touch Lost
LARGE FIBER PREDOMINANT NEUROPATHY (A-ALPHA, A-BETA)
synonyms
ATAXIC NEUROPATHIES
Responsible for:
Muscle weakness
Reflex lost
Proprioception
Joint Pain
Fine touch
Vibration
LARGE FIBER PREDOMINANT NEUROPATHY (A-ALPHA, A-BETA)
🧠⚡PVT Friedrich SC⚡
✨ Pyridoxine toxicity
✨ Vitamin B12 deficiency
✨ Taxanes
✨ Friedrich’s ATAXIA
✨ Sjogren’s SYNDROME
✨ Cisplatin
SMALL FIBER PREDOMINANT NEUROPATHY (A-DELTA, C type)
Features
SYMMETRICAL
REFLEXES PRESERVED
MOSTLY SENSORY
Pain
Temperature sensation altered
ANS involvement
Reflex Loss MINIMAL
LARGE FIBER PREDOMINANT NEUROPATHY (A-ALPHA, A-BETA)
✨ Positive Symptoms
✨ Negative Symptoms
⭐ positive
Tingling and COTTON wool like sensation
Paresthesia
Dysasthesia
⭐ NEGATIVE
-Numbness
-Sensory Ataxia
-Romberg’s sign / Washbasin phenomenon / Pseudoathetosis
SMALL FIBER PREDOMINANT NEUROPATHY (A-DELTA, C)
Positive features
Positive Symptoms
✨ Burning PAIN : Stocking and Glove pattern
✨ ANS Manifestation
-erectile dysfunctions
-postural Hypotension
-Tachy-Brady syndromes
-sweating
-nocturnal diarrhea
-gustatory sweating
NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS
✨ BURNS
✨ Non Healing ulcer
✨ Charcot Joints
Stocking and Glove pattern
Glove and Stocking pattern
⭐ Small fiber neuropathy
⭐ Cervical Compressive Myelopathy
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON which fiber polyneuropathy
SMALL FIBER POLYNEUROPATHY
Small Fiber Neuropathy is AXONAL or DEMYELINATING
Axonal
Length dependent ➕ Distal to Proximal
Symmetrical
Distal fibers involved
VASCULITIS USUALLY PRESENT WITH WHICH NEUROPATHY
Polyneuropathy
Except
PAN
Cryoglobulinemia
EGPA
VASCULITIS presenting with MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX
🧠⚡PCC ⚡
⭐ PAN
✨ Churg Strauss SYNDROME (EGPA)
✨ Cryoglobulinemia
Middle Molecules
Molecules that are larger than pore size
They remain in the body even after dialysis
-Uremic Toxins : Causes NEUROPATHY in UREMIA
-AB2 microglobulin : causes DIALYSIS associated AMYLOIDOSIS
Causes of SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY
🧠⚡FADU VALTS H² ⚡
Fabry’s disease
Amyloidosis
Diabetes (⚡⚡ MOST COMMON)
Uremia
✨ VASCULITIS (except PAN)
A ✨ Idiopathic Pandysautonomias
✨ Leprosy
✨ Tangier’s disease
✨ Sjogren’s syndrome
✨ HIV
✨ Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON presentation of LEPRSOSY
⚡⚡MOST COMMON CAUSE of MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX
⭐ SMALL FIBRE POLYNEUROPATHY
⭐ LEPROSY
⚡⚡ MOST COMMON NEUROLOGICAL PRESENTATION IN HIV
Small fiber Polyneuropathy
POSTEROLATERAL CORD SYNDROME
✨ Vitamin B12 DEFICIENCY
✨ Vitamin E deficiency
✨ COPPER deficiency
Extensor PLANTAR (UMN Feature)
➕
LARGE FIBER NEUROPATHY(LMN Feature)
(LOSS OF REFLEXES)
PAIN PREDOMINANT SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY
🧠⚡ Fab! Hd TV⚡
⭐ Fabry’s Disease
Others
⭐ TANGIER’S disease
⭐ HIV
⭐ VASCULITIS
All Neuropathy caused by drugs are AXONAL except:
🧠⚡ DAXO⚡
🧠⚡CAGe : causes DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY ⚡
Chloroquine
Amiodarone
Gold
Combined SMALL and LARGE FIBER NEUROPATHY
🧠⚡ CHVT (CHUTiya)⚡
✨ Carcinomatous sensory NEUROPATHY
✨ Hereditary Sensory Motor NEUROPATHY
✨ VINCRISTINE
✨ TAXANES
NEUROPATHY classification
Based on structure involved
⭐ AXONAL NEUROPATHY
⭐ DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY
PURE HEREDITARY DEMYELINATING CONDITION
🧠⚡when it gets DE-Myelinated, it soon Re-Forms ⚡
Refsum’s Disease
Charcot Marie Tooth Disease shows which type of NEUROPATHY
Axonal
and
DEMYELINATING
RELAPSING NEUROPATHIES
🧠⚡CRP ⚡
⭐ DEMYELINATING:
CIDP
REFSUM’S DISEASE
⭐ AXONAL
PORPHYRIA
Only ACUTE NEUROPATHY which is AXONAL
⚡AXONAL are usually CHRONIC⚡
Porphyria