CLINICAL RESEARCH
Evaluation of sural nerve automated nerve conduction study in the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
 
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Submission date: 2014-08-05
 
 
Final revision date: 2014-08-23
 
 
Acceptance date: 2014-09-03
 
 
Online publication date: 2016-04-12
 
 
Publication date: 2016-04-11
 
 
Arch Med Sci 2016;12(2):390-393
 
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Introduction: New tests for improved diagnosis of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) are useful.
Material and methods: We evaluated the utility of automated nerve conduction study (NCS) of the sural nerve with a new portable device for the diagnosis of DPN in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study included 114 T2DM patients (58 men) with mean age 64.60 ±8.61 years. Exclusion criteria were B12 depletion, alcohol abuse and other causes of peripheral neuropathy. The reference method was the Neuropathy Disability Score (NDS) with a threshold NDS ≥ 3. Sural nerve automated NCS was carried out with the portable NC-stat DPNCheck device. Sensory nerve conduction velocity and sensory nerve action potential amplitude were measured bilaterally. Automated NCS was considered abnormal when ≥ 1 of the two aforementioned neurophysiological parameters was abnormal in at least one leg.
Results: Examination with NC-stat DPNCheck exhibited 90.48% sensitivity, 86.11% specificity, 79.17% positive predictive value (PPV) and 93.94% negative predictive value (NPV). The positive likelihood ratio (LR+) was 6.51 and the negative likelihood ratio (LR–) was 0.11.
Conclusions: Sural nerve automated NCS with the NC-stat DPNCheck device exhibits high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of DPN in T2DM.
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