Re: RESEARCH - Update on medication-induced peripheral neuropathy

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Thanks , I printed this out for my doc. Is this the only part of the article

we can get?

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> Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2009 Jan;9(1):69-75.

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> Update on medication-induced peripheral neuropathy.

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> Weimer LH, Sachdev N.

> The Neurological Institute, 710 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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> Despite improvements in the identification of causes of peripheral

> neuropathy, idiopathic polyneuropathy remains common. Medication and

> toxic neuropathy account for a small but important percentage of

> potentially preventable or reversible causes of neuropathy. New drugs

> that can induce neuropathy have been approved over the past several

> years, including the anticancer agents bortezomib, ixabepilone, and

> oxaliplatin. We review the neurotoxic effects of tumor necrosis

> factor-alpha blockers infliximab and etanercept, the inflammatory

> arthritis agent leflunomide, and the antibiotic linezolid. The

> controversy of statin-induced neuropathy continues to unfold; the

> large Fremantle Diabetes Study has suggested that statins may have

> neuroprotective effects. Dichloroacetate is a promising agent for

> lactic acidosis-associated disorders, but toxic neuropathy is a

> treatment-limiting factor. We also describe a progressive inflammatory

> neuropathy in swine slaughterhouse workers that appears to be a

> toxin-induced immune response.

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> PMID: 19080756

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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19080756

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> Not an MD

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[Guest guest]

Yes, that's all. The full article requires a subscription. Your

physician may have access to the full article.

Not an MD

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM, ktandtm<ktandtm@...> wrote:

> Thanks , I printed this out for my doc. Is this the only part of the

article we can get?

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