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Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report
Peripheral neuropathy is a common neurodegenerative disease, with vastness of inducers and causalities. The acquired form peripheral neuropathy can be caused by traumatic injuries caused by nerve lacerations or compressions. Such injuries are usually followed by Wallerian degeneration, and inflammat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7203399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31900814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-019-00144-5 |
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author | Bani Hani, Diab A. Alawneh, Khaled Z. Aleshawi, Abdelwahab J. Ahmad, Akram I. Raffee, Liqaa A. Alhowary, Ala”a A. AlQawasmeh, Majdi Abuzayed, Bashar |
author_facet | Bani Hani, Diab A. Alawneh, Khaled Z. Aleshawi, Abdelwahab J. Ahmad, Akram I. Raffee, Liqaa A. Alhowary, Ala”a A. AlQawasmeh, Majdi Abuzayed, Bashar |
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description | Peripheral neuropathy is a common neurodegenerative disease, with vastness of inducers and causalities. The acquired form peripheral neuropathy can be caused by traumatic injuries caused by nerve lacerations or compressions. Such injuries are usually followed by Wallerian degeneration, and inflammatory reaction. We present a case of a 33-year-old female with a chronic loss of the ulnar nerve function for 8 years after traumatic laceration. After that, she regained the functions of ulnar nerve after nerve stimulation by peri-ulnar nerve injection of methylprednisolone and lidocaine. The theory behind using steroids is related to the fact that the immune system could induce a secondary injury that interferes with the recovery. Many studies have shown effectiveness in using steroids alone or when combined with other substances on nerve regeneration in animal models. We believe that this is the first report of nerve recovery using local steroidal injections after a traumatic injury. |
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spelling | pubmed-72033992020-05-12 Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report Bani Hani, Diab A. Alawneh, Khaled Z. Aleshawi, Abdelwahab J. Ahmad, Akram I. Raffee, Liqaa A. Alhowary, Ala”a A. AlQawasmeh, Majdi Abuzayed, Bashar Pain Ther Case Report Peripheral neuropathy is a common neurodegenerative disease, with vastness of inducers and causalities. The acquired form peripheral neuropathy can be caused by traumatic injuries caused by nerve lacerations or compressions. Such injuries are usually followed by Wallerian degeneration, and inflammatory reaction. We present a case of a 33-year-old female with a chronic loss of the ulnar nerve function for 8 years after traumatic laceration. After that, she regained the functions of ulnar nerve after nerve stimulation by peri-ulnar nerve injection of methylprednisolone and lidocaine. The theory behind using steroids is related to the fact that the immune system could induce a secondary injury that interferes with the recovery. Many studies have shown effectiveness in using steroids alone or when combined with other substances on nerve regeneration in animal models. We believe that this is the first report of nerve recovery using local steroidal injections after a traumatic injury. Springer Healthcare 2020-01-03 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7203399/ /pubmed/31900814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-019-00144-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Bani Hani, Diab A. Alawneh, Khaled Z. Aleshawi, Abdelwahab J. Ahmad, Akram I. Raffee, Liqaa A. Alhowary, Ala”a A. AlQawasmeh, Majdi Abuzayed, Bashar Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report |
title | Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report |
title_full | Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report |
title_short | Successful and Complete Recovery of the Ulnar Nerve After Eight Years of Chronic Injury Through Local Steroid Injections: A Case Report |
title_sort | successful and complete recovery of the ulnar nerve after eight years of chronic injury through local steroid injections: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7203399/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31900814 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-019-00144-5 |
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