Neuropathy (disambiguation)

Neuropathy usually refers to peripheral neuropathy, which denotes damage to nerves of the peripheral nervous system.

Neuropathy may also refer to:

• Cranial neuropathy, any condition affecting cranial nerves
  • Auditory neuropathy, any condition affecting the auditory nerve
  • Optic neuropathy, any condition affecting the optic nerve (including "Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy")
• Diabetic neuropathy, a disorder that is associated with diabetes mellitus
• Familial amyloid neuropathies, a rare group of autosomal dominant neuropathies of autonomic and peripheral nerves
• Giant axonal neuropathy, a rare neurological disorder that causes disorganization of neurofilaments
• Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP), a peripheral neuropathy that affects the sensory and muscle nerves
• Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP), a condition that causes a variety of signs and symptoms chiefly affecting the nervous system
• Neuropathy target esterase, a protein (enzyme) that catalyzes (increases the rates of) chemical reactions
• Organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy, a neuropathy caused by killing of neurons in the central nervous system, especially in the spinal cord, as a result of acute or chronic organophosphate poisoning
• Polyneuropathy, a neurological disorder that occurs when many peripheral nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously

Contrasts

• Neuropathy contrasts with terms describing problems in other parts of the nervous system such as:
  • Encephalopathy
  • Myelopathy
  • Radiculopathy
  • Neuromuscular junction disease
  • Myopathy

See also

• Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
• Neuropathia mucinosa cutanea
• Neuropathic arthropathy
• Neuropathic pain
• Neuropathic ulcer
• Neuropathology
• Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, medical journal

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