Polyneuropathy - DISTAL SyMMET rIc PoLyNEuroPAThy This fact sheet may help you understand which tests are best to find the cause of distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP). One study found that of diabetic patients with DSP had other possible. Polyneuropathy is a generalized disease of the peripheral nerves with the distal nerves usually most severely affected.
Neurologists from the American Academy of Neurology are doctors who identify and treat diseases of the brain and nervous system. Distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP) is probably the most common type of neuropathy associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) and is characterised by symmetric, slowly progressive or static, toe and distal foot numbness, paraesthesias, with or without neuropathic pain, absent Achilles tendon reflexes, and little or no weakness. There are various causes including toxic, metabolic (chronic liver disease endocrine (diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia, hypothyroidism etc.) immune-mediate carcinomatous, idiopathic and.
The inclusion of this formalized case definition in clinical and epidemiologic research studies.