Point-of-care ultrasound of peripheral nerves in the diagnosis of Hansen's disease neuropathy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hansen's disease (HD) is the most common cause of treatable peripheral neuropathy in the world that may or may not involve skin manifestations, and physical examination based on simplified neurologic evaluation is a subjective and inaccurate procedure. High-resolution ultrasound (HRUS) can be used to evaluate peripheral nerves and is a validated technique of good reproducibility, permitting a detailed and precise examination.

Objectives

We proposed to establish objective criteria for absolute values of the measurement of the CSA of peripheral nerves and their indices of the ΔCSA and ΔTpT in the diagnosis of Hansen's disease neuropathy as compared with healthy voluntaries.

Materials and methods

In municipalities from different regions of Brazil, we randoml

SUBMITTER: Voltan G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9504868 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature