Types of peripheral neuropathy
Based on symptomatology or aetiology, peripheral neuropathies can be categorized as follows:
- Acute onset:
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Porphyria
- Toxic (for example, arsenic, nitrofurantoin)
- Serum sickness (postimmunisation)
- Diphtheria
- Malignancy
- Critical illness polyneuropathy
- Diabetes, uraemia (rarely)
- Predominantly motor:
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Porphyria
- Diphtheria
- Lead
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Diabetes (diabetic amyotrophy)
- Predominantly sensory:
- Leprosy Diabetes (distal sensory polyneuropathy)
- Vitamin B12 or thiamine deficiency
- Malignancy
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy
- Primary of familial amyloidosis
- Uraemia
- Lyme disease
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Radicular:
- Diabetic truncal neuropathy
- Lyme disease
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Painful neuropathies:
- Alcohol, nutritional deficiencies
- Diabetes (acute painful neuropathy)
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN type 1)
- Arsenic
- Cryoglobulinaemia
- Lyme disease
- Paraneoplastic sensory neuropathy
- Vasculitic neuropathies
Reference:
- McLeod JG. Investigation of peripheral neuropathy. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1995;58:274-283
Related pages
- Peripheral neuropathy (predominantly motor)
- Peripheral neuropathy (painful)
- Peripheral neuropathy (drug-induced)
- Peripheral neuropathy (with autonomic dysfunction)
- Peripheral neuropathy (mainly demyelination defect)
- Peripheral neuropathy (mainly axonal defect)
- Peripheral neuropathy (mainly sensory)
- Peripheral neuropathy (premoninantly radicular)
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