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Peripheral Neuropathy in the Elderly: A Clinical and Electrophysiologic Study
Author(s) -
Huang C. Y.,
Med M
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1981.tb01226.x
Subject(s) - medicine , peripheral neuropathy , peripheral , electrophysiologic study , intensive care medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , tachycardia
Fifty‐nine elderly patients with clinical and neurophysiologic evidence of peripheral neuropathy were reviewed. Diabetes, alcoholism and malignancy were the important etiologic factors, but other causes of acquired neuropathy such as drugs, autoimmune disease, and acute or chronic demyelinating neuropathy continue to warrant attention. Postural hypotension associated with neuropathy occurred in three patients with diabetes and one patient with lymphoma. Prognosis for the neuropathies did not seem to be adversely affected by age.