Small-nerve-fiber pathology in critical illness documented by serial skin biopsies

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 28-33

  Skorna, Miroslav ^a   Kopacik, Roman ^a   Vlckova, Eva ^b   Adamova, Blanka ^b   Kostalova, Milena ^b   Bednarik, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Myopathy; Polyneuropathy; Skin biopsy; Small fibers

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICAL ILLNESS POLYNEUROPATHY; DELIRIUM; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAEPIDERMAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOPATHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SEPSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; BIOPSY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERYTHROMELALGIA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN;

AGED; BIOPSY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERYTHROMELALGIA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SKIN;

EID: 84931569194     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24489     Document Type: Article

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