Impairment of small somatic and autonomic nerve fibres in intensive care unit patients with severe sepsis and critical illness polyneuropathy - a single center controlled observational study

BMC Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Axer, Hubertus ^a   Grimm, Alexander ^a   Porzelius, Christine ^a,b   Teschner, Ulrike ^a   Schumacher, Ulrike ^a   Witte, Otto W ^a   Brunkhorst, Frank M ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIP; Critical illness polyneuropathy; Severe sepsis; Skin biopsies; Small fibre neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVE; AXONAL INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICAL ILLNESS POLYNEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE PRODUCT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLYNEUROPATHY; RANKIN SCALE; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN BIOPSY; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE;

AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POLYNEUROPATHIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84886732431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-13-159     Document Type: Article

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