Guidelines in practice: treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy.
This article describes a patient with a painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Features of his history, examination, and diagnostic workup are presented. His treatment course is described as guided by the AAN's evidence-based guideline on the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy. Lastly, features of coding for diabetic peripheral neuropathy are reviewed.
Tuft University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. anantshenoymd@gmail.com
Anant M
AM
Shenoy
D000639:Amitriptyline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D059019:Clinical Coding; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D000069583:Pregabalin; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000700:Analgesics; D000639:Amitriptyline; D000069583:Pregabalin; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid