Pattern, causes and functional outcome of peripheral neuropathies in the Amazon region.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peripheral neuropathies have a wide variety of causes and pathophysiologies. Assuming that there are local particularities in the Amazon region, the aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients by determining the factors associated with functional severity.

Methods

This was a retrospective observational study at Cayenne Hospital between January 2015 and May 2023. We included patients from the French hospital activity monitoring database "Programme de médicalisation des systèmes d'information" by searching for the keywords "neuropathy" "Guillain-Barre syndrome"(GBS) "multineuritis" "polyneuritis". The Peripheral Neuropathy Disability (PND) score was determined to quantify the functional severity of patients.

Results

A total of 754 patien

SUBMITTER: Deschamps N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11661610 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature