Nerve conduction study of lower extremities in cutaneous arteritis patients with neurological manifestations

Some patients originally diagnosed with cutaneous arteritis (CA) could develop additional disease manifestations, including peripheral neurological involvement. We evaluated the biological neurological parameters among CA patients who underwent nerve conduction studies for neurological involvement i...

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Published in:Journal of dermatology 2017-11, Vol.44 (11), p.1299-1302
Main Authors: Isahaya, Kenji, Kawakami, Tamihiro, Shiraishi, Makoto, Akiyama, Hisanao, Hasegawa, Yasuhiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action potential
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Arteritis
compound muscle action potential
cutaneous arteritis
Female
Humans
Latency
Lower Extremity - innervation
Male
Middle Aged
mononeuritis multiplex
Nerve conduction
nerve conduction study
Neural Conduction
peroneal and sural nerve
Peroneal nerve
Polyarteritis Nodosa - physiopathology
Retrospective Studies
Sural nerve
Young Adult
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Summary:Some patients originally diagnosed with cutaneous arteritis (CA) could develop additional disease manifestations, including peripheral neurological involvement. We evaluated the biological neurological parameters among CA patients who underwent nerve conduction studies for neurological involvement in the lower extremities. We reviewed 164 patients who were originally diagnosed with CA at our dermatology department between 2004 and 2015. Seventeen (10.4%) of the CA patients underwent further nerve conduction studies to determine their peripheral neurological manifestations, primarily in the lower extremities, in our neurology division. The frequency of low compound muscle action potential (CMAP) was significantly higher compared with that of delayed latency in both the peroneal nerve and sural nerve based on nerve conduction studies. The frequency of low CMAP was significantly higher compared with that of prolonged distal latency in both the peroneal and sural nerves. We suggest that impairment of the nerve axon pathways in the peroneal and sural nerves could result in the peripheral neurological manifestations in the lower extremities in CA patients.
ISSN:0385-2407
1346-8138
DOI:10.1111/1346-8138.13946