Antoine Pegat, Antoine Gavoille, Florent Cluse, Martin Moussy, Philippe Petiot, Jean-Philippe Camdessanché, Françoise Bouhour
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Sural/Radial Amplitude Ratio: A Useful Tool to Diagnose Non-Length-Dependent Neuropathy.
Introduction/aims: Patients with non-length-dependent neuropathy (NLDN) exhibit reduced sensory nerve action potential (SNAP) amplitudes in both lower and upper limbs. This study aimed to determine a threshold for the sural/radial amplitude ratio (SRAR) suggestive of NLDN.
Methods: This retrospective case-control study involved 60 patients with definite NLDN (sensory neuronopathy [SNN] or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy [CIDP]) and 30 patients with length-dependent neuropathy (LDN). The diagnostic performance of SRAR was evaluated using the area under the curve (AUC) of the modeled receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The presence of a length-dependent electrodiagnostic (EDX) pattern, defined as a sural SNAP amplitude lower than the radial one, was evaluated in each group.
Results: SRAR could be calculated in 90/164 (54.9%) of patients screened. Among patients with NLDN, the median SRAR was 0.74 (IQR 0.50-1.00) compared to 0.17 (IQR 0.12-0.23) in patients with LDN. The ROC curve analysis for NLDN versus LDN yielded an AUC of 0.94 (95% CI, 0.883-0.979). The SRAR threshold of 0.33 provided a sensitivity of 84.4% (95% CI, 77.8%-90.9%), specificity of 86.9% (95% CI, 79.7%-94%). The length-dependent EDX pattern was observed in 100% (30/30) of LDN patients and 63% (38/60) of NLDN patients. Among these 38 patients with NLDN, SRAR exceeded 0.33 in 78.9% (30/38).
Discussion: SRAR appears to be useful in the electrophysiological evaluation of neuropathies. In addition to usual diagnostic criteria, an SRAR > 0.33 may strongly suggest NLDN such as SNN or CIDP.
期刊介绍:
Muscle & Nerve is an international and interdisciplinary publication of original contributions, in both health and disease, concerning studies of the muscle, the neuromuscular junction, the peripheral motor, sensory and autonomic neurons, and the central nervous system where the behavior of the peripheral nervous system is clarified. Appearing monthly, Muscle & Nerve publishes clinical studies and clinically relevant research reports in the fields of anatomy, biochemistry, cell biology, electrophysiology and electrodiagnosis, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, toxicology, and virology. The Journal welcomes articles and reports on basic clinical electrophysiology and electrodiagnosis. We expedite some papers dealing with timely topics to keep up with the fast-moving pace of science, based on the referees'' recommendation.