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Thermoregulation in neuropathies.
Peripheral neuropathy affecting autonomic and small sensory fibers can cause abnormalities of both autonomic and behavioral thermoregulation. Quantitative autonomic and sensory neurophysiologic tests and quantification of the linear density of intraepidermal nerve fibers potentially can stratify those at risk of impaired thermoregulation during cold and heat challenges. New data relating to thermoregulatory sweating impairment in neuropathy are presented in this chapter. Of 516 neuropathy patients analyzed, 345 were found to have thermoregulatory sweat test (TST) abnormalities with a mean percentage of anterior body surface anhidrosis (TST%) of 12% and a significant reduction in total body sweat rate, although the rate of core temperature rise with heating (slope) was not significantly different from that of patients with a normal TST. However a subset of abnormal TST patients having 25% or greater TST% showed a significantly more rapid rise in core temperature (lower slope) than age- and sex-matched neuropathy patients with a normal TST. Etiologies of neuropathy in this more severe group included diabetes, erythromelalgia, immune-mediated autonomic neuropathy, primary systemic amyloidosis, and neuropathy associated with postganglionic-autonomic degenerative disorders.
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