Electrophysiologic features in patients with chronic neurolathyrism.
Neurolathyrism is a toxic nutritional disorder induced by the ingestion of the chick-pea "lathyrus sativus" and characterized by a pure motor spastic paraparesis. Eight patients with long-standing disease underwent nerve conduction and electromyographic studies. Two of them (25%) showed electrophysiological signs of lower motor neuron disease in their lower limbs. Subclinical affection of the anterior horn cells occurs probably more frequently than expected in chronic neurolathyrism.
Drory
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Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel.
Rabey
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MJ
Cohn
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D000368:Aged; D004576:Electromyography; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000506:poisoning*; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006181:H-Reflex / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007842:Lathyrism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000503:physiopathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology*