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[Autonomic neuropathy in diabetic patients. Part I. Pathogenesis and clinical problems]
Ewa Otto-Buczkowska1, Przemysława Jarosz Chobot
1Górnoślaskie Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka i Matki, Poradnia Diabetologiczna w Katowicach, Klinika Endokrynologii i Diabetologii Dzieci Sl. AM w Katowicach. em.buczkowski@pro.onet.pl
Polski Merkuriusz Lekarski : Organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
|November 8, 2002
Abstract:
Diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common and serious complications of diabetes both type 1 and type 2. Damage to autonomic nerves in the course of diabetes mellitus leads to diabetic autonomic neuropathy. There are three hypotheses explaining the pathogenetic mechanism of polyneuropathy: metabolic, vascular and immunological. Many diabetic patients have demonstrable abnormalities of autonomic function without any evidence of clinical disease.