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Carpal tunnel syndrome: age, nerve conduction severity and duration of symptomatology
- Source :
- Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria v.57 n.2B 1999, Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria, Academia Brasileira de Neurologia, instacron:ABNEURO, Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Volume: 57, Issue: 2B, Pages: 382-386, Published: JUN 1999
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- FapUNIFESP (SciELO), 1999.
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Abstract
- Median sensory and motor distal latencies (SDL/MDL) were correlated with age and duration of symptomatology in 1498 carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) patients (17-90 years old, 87.6% female). Patients were distributed in four groups according to distal latencies severity. There was an increase in age as long as SDL/MDL became more severe, ranging from 47.5 to 67 years old (mild to severe-absence potentials in both hands groups, respectively). There was a less dramatic increase in duration of complaints as long as SDL/MDL became more severe, ranging from 12 to 30.7 months (mild to severe-absence potentials in both hands groups, respectively). Aging correlates more positively than duration of complaints with severity of SDL/MDL in CTS. The effects of increasing median blockage in CTS are more severe as long as patients become older regardless duration of symptomatology. Latências distais sensitivas e motoras (LDS/LDM) do nervo mediano foram correlacionadas com idade e duração da sintomatologia em 1498 pacientes com síndrome do túnel do carpo (STC); a idade variou de 17 a 90 anos e 87,6% eram do sexo feminino. Os casos foram distribuídos em quatro grupos de acordo com a gravidade das latências distais. Houve aumento de idade proporcional ao aumento de LDS/LDM, variando de 47,5 a 67 anos nos grupos leve e grave-ausência de potenciais nas duas mãos, respectivamente. Houve aumento menos dramático na duração da sintomatologia proporcional ao aumento de LDS/LDM, variando de 12 a 30,7 meses nos grupos leve e grave-ausência de potenciais nas duas mãos, respectivamente. O aumento da idade correlaciona-se melhor que a duração da sintomatologia com o aumento de LDS/LDM. Os efeitos do aumento do bloqueio do nervo mediano no STC são mais graves com o avanço da idade, independentemente da duração da sintomatologia.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Time Factors
Adolescent
carpal tunnel syndrome
nervo mediano
síndrome do túnel do carpo
macromolecular substances
condução nervosa
nerve conduction study
Severity of Illness Index
entrapment neuropathy
Severity of illness
medicine
Humans
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
medicine.diagnostic_test
compression neuropathy
business.industry
Age Factors
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Median nerve
neuropatia compressiva
nervous system
Neurology
Duration (music)
Anesthesia
median nerve
Entrapment Neuropathy
Nerve conduction study
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Nerve conduction
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0004282X
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....538b1a5458f4feb6f4eafa83cce009b3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/s0004-282x1999000300007