[State of kinesthetic sensitivity in patients with a latent or subclinical course of alcoholic polyneuritis].
Use of kinesthesiometry and stimulation electroneuromyography has made it possible to reveal generalized disorders in the state of the peripheral nervous system in 45 chronic alcoholics. These disorders observed in all patients consisted in a lowering of the kinesthetic sensitivity, a deterioration of the conductivity along the sensor and the motor fibres of the median and the tibial nerves, and a diminution of the number of functioning motor units in the hand and foot muscles, as compared with respective parametres in healthy subjects. On the basis of the electroneuromyographic findings a latent or a subclinical form of alcoholic polyneuritis was diagnosed in these patients. The kinesthetic sensitivity was found to get lower (this lowering being statistically significant) as early as in the primary stage of chronic alcoholism, and to show a tendency to a rise under the influence of disintoxication therapy.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D004568:Electrodiagnosis; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007699:Kinesthesis; D011115:Polyneuropathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012684:Sensory Thresholds
Sostoianie kinesteticheskoĭ chuvstvitel'nosti u bol'nykh s latentnym i subklinicheskim techeniem alkogol'nogo polinevrita.