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Van der Vliet JA, Navarro X, Kennedy WR, et al. Long-term follow-up of polyneuropathy in diabetic kidney transplant recipients. Diabetes. 1988;37(9):1247-52doi: 10.2337/diab.37.9.1247.
Van der Vliet, J. A., Navarro, X., Kennedy, W. R., Goetz, F. C., Barbosa, J. J., Sutherland, D. E., & Najarian, J. S. (1988). Long-term follow-up of polyneuropathy in diabetic kidney transplant recipients. Diabetes, 37(9), 1247-52. https://doi.org/10.2337/diab.37.9.1247
Van der Vliet, J A, et al. "Long-term follow-up of polyneuropathy in diabetic kidney transplant recipients." Diabetes vol. 37,9 (1988): 1247-52. doi: https://doi.org/10.2337/diab.37.9.1247
Van der Vliet JA, Navarro X, Kennedy WR, Goetz FC, Barbosa JJ, Sutherland DE, Najarian JS. Long-term follow-up of polyneuropathy in diabetic kidney transplant recipients. Diabetes. 1988 Sep;37(9):1247-52. doi: 10.2337/diab.37.9.1247. PMID: 3044890.
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Diabetes. 1988 Sep;37(9):1247-52. doi: 10.2337/diab.37.9.1247.

Long-term follow-up of polyneuropathy in diabetic kidney transplant recipients.

Diabetes

J A Van der Vliet, X Navarro, W R Kennedy, F C Goetz, J J Barbosa, D E Sutherland, J S Najarian

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

PMID: 3044890 DOI: 10.2337/diab.37.9.1247

Abstract

Nerve conduction and electromyography (EMG) of insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetic patients with end-stage nephropathy was studied before and up to 10 yr after kidney transplantation (KTx). A series of nondiabetic KTx patients served as a comparison group. Motor nerve conduction velocity (NCV) was measured in the ulnar, median, peroneal, and tibial nerves; sensory NCV was measured in the median nerve. EMG was performed in the first dorsal interosseus, flexor carpi radialis, anterior tibialis, and gastrocnemius muscles. In 68 pre-KTx diabetic patients, the mean NCV was below normal in all nerves, and the mean amplitudes of the evoked muscle action potential (MAP) were low normal in the upper extremity and below normal in the lower extremity. The values of the comparison group were within the normal range. At 1 (n = 57), 5 (n = 23), and 10 (n = 10) yr after KTx, the mean NCV of the diabetic patients remained essentially unchanged, but MAP amplitudes of all muscles had declined. EMG revealed progression of the denervation process, especially in muscles of the lower extremities. We conclude that diabetic neuropathy continues to progress by a progressive axonal loss after correction of uremia by KTx.

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