Standardized quantitative sensory testing in patients with psoriasis vulgaris: evidence for altered large and small fibre functioning

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. e137-e140 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Baumbach ◽  
T. Weiss ◽  
C. Giermann ◽  
S. Cubillos ◽  
W. Meissner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Sensory Testing ◽  
Psoriasis Vulgaris ◽  
Sensory Testing ◽  
Small Fibre

Sensitive skin can be small fibre neuropathy: results from a case-control quantitative sensory testing study

2018 ◽  
Vol 179 (5) ◽  
pp. 1157-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Huet ◽  
A. Dion ◽  
A. Batardière ◽  
A.S. Nedelec ◽  
F. Le Caër ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Sensory Testing ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Sensory Testing ◽  
Sensitive Skin ◽  
Small Fibre Neuropathy ◽  
Small Fibre

Quantitative Sensory Testing in Animal Models of Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Monteiro ◽  
M. Moreau ◽  
C. Otis ◽  
L. De Lorimier ◽  
J. Pelletier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Animal Models ◽  
Quantitative Sensory Testing ◽  
Sensory Testing

scholarly journals Patients with Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy Show Altered Thermal Sensitivity and Autonomic Function

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Dalia Rega ◽  
Mika Aiko ◽  
Nicolás Peñaranda ◽  
Amparo Urios ◽  
Juan-José Gallego ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Hepatic Encephalopathy ◽  
Quantitative Sensory Testing ◽  
Autonomic Function ◽  
Thermal Sensitivity ◽  
Somatosensory System ◽  
Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy ◽  
Heat Pain ◽  
Sensory Testing ◽  
Cirrhotic Patients

Cirrhotic patients may experience alterations in the peripheral nervous system and in somatosensory perception. Impairment of the somatosensory system could contribute to cognitive and motor alterations characteristic of minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), which affects up to 40% of cirrhotic patients. We assessed the relationship between MHE and alterations in thermal, vibration, and/or heat pain sensitivity in 58 cirrhotic patients (38 without and 20 with MHE according to Psychometric Hepatic Encephalopathy Score) and 39 controls. All participants underwent attention and coordination tests, a nerve conduction study, autonomic function testing, and evaluation of sensory thresholds (vibration, cooling, and heat pain detection) by electromyography and quantitative sensory testing. The detection thresholds for cold and heat pain on the foot were higher in patients with, than those without MHE. This hyposensitivity was correlated with attention deficits. Reaction times in the foot were longer in patients with, than without MHE. Patients with normal sural nerve amplitude showed altered thermal sensitivity and autonomic function, with stronger alterations in patients with, than in those without MHE. MHE patients show a general decrease in cognitive and sensory abilities. Small fibers of the autonomic nervous system and thermal sensitivity are altered early on in MHE, before large sensory fibers. Quantitative sensory testing could be used as a marker of MHE.

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