Simple screening test for peripheral neuropathy in the diabetes clinic

Diabetes Care

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 250-256

  Perkins, Bruce A ^a   Olaleye, David ^b   Zinman, Bernard ^d   Bril, Vera ^c,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOCICEPTION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; SENSORY STIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIBRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOUCH;

ADULT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0034746506     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.24.2.250     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Association of painful and painless diabetic polyneuropathy with different patterns of nerve fiber degeneration and regeneration
2. Positive sensory symptoms in neuropathy: Mechanisms and aspects of treatment
3. Pathways to diabetic limb amputation: Basis for prevention
4. The effect of intensive treatment of diabetes on the development and progression of long-term complications in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
5. Intensive blood-glucose control with sulfonylureas or insulin compared with conventional treatment and risk of complications in patients with type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 33)
6. Glycemic control is related to the electrophysiologic severity of diabetic peripheral sensorimotor polyneuropathy
7. Why bother educating the multi-disciplinary team and the patient: The example of prevention of lower extremity amputation in diabetes
8. Lowering the risk of neuropathy, foot ulcers and amputations
9. Double-blind randomized trial of tramadol for the treatment of the pain of diabetic peripheral polyneuropathy
10. Diabetic neuropathy: Pathogenesis and therapy
11. Current treatment of diabetic neuropathy
12. Identifying diabetic patients at high risk for lower-extremity amputation in a primary health care setting: A prospective evaluation of simple screening criteria
13. Reducing lower-extremity amputations due to diabetes: Application of the staged diabetes management approach in a primary care setting
14. The Semmes-Weinstein monofilament as a potential predictor of foot ulceration in patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes
15. The prevalence and determinants of foot ulceration in type II diabetic patients in a primary health care setting
16. The prediction of diabetic neuropathic foot ulceration using vibration perception thresholds: A prospective study
17. 1998 Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada
18. Preventive foot care in people with diabetes
19. Report and recommendations of the San Antonio Conference on Diabetic Neuropathy
20. Role of electrophysiological studies in diabetic neuropathy
21. Electrophysiological monitoring in clinical trials: Roche Neuropathy Study Group
22. Sensory action potentials and biopsy of the sural nerve in neuropathy
23. The relationship between sural nerve morphometric findings and measures of peripheral nerve function in mild diabetic neuropathy
24. Regeneration and repair of myelinated fibers in sural-nerve biopsies from patients with diabetic neuropathy treated with sorbinil
25. Pathologic alterations in the diabetic neuropathies of humans: A review
26. The economic costs of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
27. Intensified conventional insulin treatment retards the microvascular complications of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM): The Stockholm Diabetes Intervention Study (SDIS) after 5 years
28. The effect of long-term intensified insulin treatment on the development of microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus
29. The Rochester. Diabetic Neuropathy Study: Design, criteria for types of neuropathy; selection bias, and reproducibility of neuropathic tests
30. A practical two-step quantitative clinical and electrophysiological assessment for the diagnosis and staging of diabetic neuropathy
31. Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments: A simple, effective and inexpensive screening device for identifying diabetic patients at risk of foot ulceration
32. Clinical examination for the detection of protective sensation in the feet of diabetic patients: International Cooperative Group for Clinical Examination Research
33. Choosing a practical screening instrument to identify patients at risk for diabetic foot ulceration
34. Identifying diabetic patients at high risk for amputation
35. The assessment of diabetic polyneuropathy in daily clinical practice: Reproducibility and validity of Semmes Weinstein monofilaments examination and clinical neurological examination