Leprosy (or Hansen's disease) is a curable chronic infectious disease caused by the acid-fast bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. While leprosy remains one of the most common causes of neuropathy worldwide, its rarity in the UK means that many doctors are unfamiliar with the typical clinical features...
Ulnar nerve was the most commonly thickened nerve in leprosy patients with the most common location of nerve thickening at medial epicondyle.#Ultrasound and electrophysiologic study of peripheral nerves in leprosy are complimentary to each other in diagnosing leprotic neuropathy....
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Mitochondrial damage has been associated with several side effects induced by cisplatin, such as peripheral neuropathy, ototoxicity, and nephrotoxicity, to which the release of FASL is likely to contribute [27,28,29]. The human clinical data obtained in the present study show that after almost 50...