The correlation of neurophysiological findings with clinical and functional status in patients following traumatic nerve injury.

In this study, we aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between the electrodiagnostic findings and the functional status, muscle strength and sensibility in patients with traumatic nerve injury to the wrists. We assessed 50 patients at a mean of 11.6 months (SD 5.85) (range 6-25) after nerve injury. Sensibility was assessed by monofilament testing. Motor function was evaluated by assessing the manual muscle grade of the abductor pollicis brevis and abductor digiti minimi muscles. Function was evaluated by the Sollerman Hand Function Test. The amplitudes of the compound muscle action potential and the sensory nerve action potential were determined by electroneuromyography. While the compound muscle action potential and sensory nerve action potential amplitudes had significant correlation with muscle grade and Semmes Weinstein Monofilament tests, there was no correlation with the functional scores.

Acute pseudogout arthritis in a patient with chronic renal failure: a case report.

Articular involvement such as osteodystrophy, osteonecrosis, dialysis-related amyloidosis, septic arthritis, malignancy and various crystal-induced arthropathies among patients with chronic renal failure is common. Cases of pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease) in patients with renal failure have been seen rarely in the literature. In these cases, acute pseudogout arthritis in only one joint such as an elbow, a wrist or an ankle in uremic patients has been reported. In our case, unlike the previously reported cases, pseudogout is found for the first time as the cause of arthritis which is concomitant in both knee and wrist joints in an uremic patient.