Diabetic amyotrophy is a rare complication of diabetes that impacts the nerves in the lower body, especially the hip and thigh. It can cause weakness, muscle loss, and debilitating pain, making it ...

The use of the ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI) has little place in the exclusion of PAD in diabetes because the frequent occurrence of arterial calcification in diabetes means that ankle ...

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Diabetes comes with lots of potential complications. Diabetic neuropathy, or nerve damage, is one of the most common. But there’s a rare type of diabetic neuropathy called diabetic amyotrophy. It ...

Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS) is a condition that brings on sudden, severe pain in your shoulder and upper arm, and then longer-lasting muscle weakness. It usually affects one side of your body.

Background: Neuralgic amyotrophy (NA) is a multifactorial, monophasic neuritis that mainly affects the nerves of the shoulder girdle. It is characterized by very severe pain and by weakness that ...

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