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Diabetic neuropathy

ბოლო მიმოხილვა: 12 Dec 2025
ბოლო განახლება: 08 Apr 2025

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ძირითადი დიაგნოსტიკური ფაქტორები

  • presence of risk factors
  • asymptomatic
  • pain (peripheral)
  • loss of sensation (peripheral)
  • dysaesthesia (peripheral)
  • reduced or absent ankle reflexes (peripheral)
  • painless injuries (peripheral)
  • resting tachycardia (autonomic)
  • impaired heart rate variability (autonomic)
  • urinary frequency, urgency, nocturia, incontinence, hesitancy, weak stream, or retention (autonomic)
  • erectile dysfunction (autonomic)
  • decreased sexual desire and increased pain during intercourse (autonomic)
  • orthostatic hypotension (autonomic)
სრული ტექსტი

სხვა დიაგნოსტიკური ფაქტორები

  • constipation (autonomic)
  • faecal incontinence (autonomic)
  • anhidrosis, heat intolerance, dry skin, or hyperhidrosis (autonomic)
  • hypoglycaemia unawareness (autonomic)
  • weakness (peripheral)
  • history of recent falls (peripheral)
  • gait ataxia (peripheral)
  • nausea, postprandial vomiting, bloating, loss of appetite, early satiety (autonomic)
  • heartburn and dysphagia for solids (autonomic)
  • profuse and watery diarrhoea (autonomic)
  • specific mononeuropathy (peripheral)
  • cranial neuropathy (peripheral)
  • pain over lower thoracic or abdominal wall (peripheral)
  • thigh muscle atrophy, pain, and weakness (peripheral)
სრული ტექსტი

რისკფაქტორები

  • poorly controlled hyperglycaemia
  • prolonged duration of diabetes
  • older age (e.g., >70 years)
  • tall stature
  • hypertension
  • dyslipidaemia with elevated triglycerides
  • co-existence of multiple cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (type 2 diabetes)
  • renal disease
  • obesity
  • immune dysregulation
  • smoking
  • genetic
სრული ტექსტი

დიაგნოსტიკური კვლევები

1-ად შესაკვეთი გამოკვლევები

  • clinical diagnosis
  • fasting blood glucose
  • HbA1c
  • serum thyroid-stimulating hormone
  • serum vitamin B12
  • renal function tests
  • serum lipid profile
  • LFTs
  • FBC and erythrocyte sedimentation rate
  • serum/urine immunoelectrophoresis
სრული ტექსტი

გასათვალისწინებელი კვლევები

  • 2-hour plasma glucose
  • nerve conduction studies (nerve conduction velocity [NCV])
  • electromyography (EMG)
  • quantitative sensory testing (QST)
  • skin biopsy
  • cardiovascular reflex testing
  • corneal confocal microscopy
  • heart rate variability (HRV)
  • gastric emptying studies
  • gastroduodenoscopy
  • barium meal
  • gastrointestinal manometry
  • hydrogen breath tests
  • gastric ultrasonography
  • gastric MRI
  • anorectal manometry
  • faecal fat
  • d-xylose test
  • urine culture
  • cystometry, voiding cystometrogram
  • post-void urinary tract ultrasound
  • video-urodynamics
  • Testosterone (morning)
სრული ტექსტი

მკურნალობის ალგორითმი

მიმდინარე

diabetic peripheral neuropathy

cranial neuropathies

limb or truncal mononeuropathies

diabetic amyotrophy

diabetic autonomic neuropathy

კონტრიბუტორები

ავტორები

Rayaz A. Malik, BSc (Hons), MSc, MBChB, FRCP, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Organizational Official for the Human Research Protection Program

Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar

Doha

Qatar

გაფრთხილება:

RAM has been reimbursed for being on the advisory board for an epidemiological study on cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes and to give educational lectures on treatment of diabetes undertaken by Novo Nordisk. RAM has been reimbursed for educational lectures for Sanofi Aventis, Lilly, and Proctor and Gamble (P&G). RAM has received an investigator-initiated grant to study long COVID from P&G. RAM is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Uazman Alam, BSc, MBChB, MPHe, PhD

Reader and Consultant Physician

University of Liverpool

Liverpool

UK

Declarações

UA has received honoraria from Procter & Gamble, Viatris, Grunenthal, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi for educational meetings. UA has also received investigator-led funding from Procter & Gamble.

Shazli Azmi, MBchB, MRCP

Consultant Physician

Diabetes and Endocrinology

Central Manchester Foundation Trust

University of Manchester

Manchester

UK

Declarações

SA has received honoraria for educational meetings from AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Menarini, Eli Lilly, and Procter & Gamble.

Agradecimentos

Dr Rayaz Malik, Dr Uazman Alam, and Dr Shazli Azmi would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Rodica Pop-Busui and Dr Eva Feldman, the previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

RPB declares that she has received speaking honoraria from Pfizer and research support from Amylin Pharmaceuticals; National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institute of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; American Diabetes Association; and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. RPB and EF are authors of references cited in this topic.

Revisores

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD

Clinical Professor

Department of Medicine

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York

NY

Declarações

ZTB declares that he has no competing interests.

Rajesh K. Garg, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Division of Endocrinology

Diabetes and Hypertension

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston

MA

Declarações

RKG has received consultant fees from Aventis and Novartis, and speaker fees from Novartis.

Edward Jude, MBBS, MD, MRCP, DNB

Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer

Tameside General Hospital

Diabetes Centre

Ashton Under Lyne

Lancashire

UK

Declarações

EJ has received funding for conferences and lectures from Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim.

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Principais artigos

Pop-Busui R, Boulton AJ, Feldman EL, et al. Diabetic neuropathy: a position statement by the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care. 2017 Jan;40(1):136-54.Texto completo  Resumo

Dyck PJ, Albers JW, Andersen H, et al; Toronto Expert Panel on Diabetic Neuropathy. Diabetic polyneuropathies: update on research definition, diagnostic criteria and estimation of severity. Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2011 Oct;27(7):620-8.Texto completo  Resumo

American Diabetes Association Professional Practice Committee. Introduction and methodology: standards of care in diabetes-2025. Diabetes Care. 2025 Jan 1;48(1 suppl 1):S1-5.Texto completo  Resumo

Price R, Smith D, Franklin G, et al. Oral and topical treatment of painful diabetic polyneuropathy: practice guideline update summary. Report of the AAN Guideline Subcommittee. Neurology. 2022 Jan 4;98(1):31-43.Texto completo  Resumo

Senneville E, Albalawi Z, van Asten SA, et al. IWGDF/IDSA guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes-related foot infections. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 2:ciad527.Texto completo  Resumo

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