It won’t work with what the American Diabetes Association calls “normal” blood sugar. In its current Clinical Practice Recommendations theADA sets an A1C level of 7.0“as a reasonable goal” for most of us. “The ADA normal blood sugars only make neuropathy worse because they are too high...
Glaucoma is an irreversible optic neuropathy due to impairment of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and the optic nerve head (ONH). It causes peripheral and even central vision impairment, finally resulting in irreversible blindness. Elevated IOP is the sole recognized changeable risk factor ...
MRI revealed planum sphenoidale meningioma causing compressive optic neuropathy in one patient, giving it a diagnostic yield of 1.82%.Routine screening blood work (ACE, ANA, CMIA) and MRI brain and orbits for chronic idiopathic unilateral optic neuropathy has low diagnostic yield, especially if ...
in tissue rejuvenation, which is achieved through a molecular reset of the systemic proteome. These findings supported the use of therapeutic blood exchange for the treatment of degenerative diseases in older individuals. The first objective of this article is to explore the rejuvenating properties of ...
“If I was a patient and I was feeling pain or experiencing neuropathy, the prized pain drug for me would target the peripheral nervous system neurons, but do nothing to the central nervous system, thus avoiding non-addictive drug side effects,” said Bhatia. “You don’t want to feel sle...
Evidence has gradually emerged that there is vascular insufficiency in the optic nerve head (ONH) in both anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) and glaucomatous optic neuropathy (GON); thus both represent ischemic disorders of the ONH. Together these diseases constitute a major cause of blindne...
Well, maybe you’re a skeptic (which is an incredibly helpful trait for a nutrition researcher, so nice job!), and you’re thinking “15 grams isn’t that much sugar, especially when a cup of blueberries also has almost 4 grams of fiber”. ...
Each kidney is composed of nearly 1 million nephrons, which work in parallel to perform the essential functions of blood filtration and maintenance of fluid volume. Current dialytic therapies poorly replace the function of the glomerulus, which is a highly interconnected capillary system that filters...
However, many other medications are commonly used successfully totreat diabetic neuropathy. Antidepressants It’s not required to be depressed in order to take an antidepressant. Antidepressants work by blocking pain messages on their way to the brain, and it’s also thought that antidepressants stimu...
Identifying the blood supply 10 the peripheral nerves is important in understanding the pathology of different types of neuropathy, and in selecting the suitable nerves for vascularized nerve grafts. This work was undertaken to study the sources and distribution of the blood supply (0 the sciatic ne...