Journal
DIAGNOSTICS
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics11071247
Keywords
diabetic neuropathy; pain; spinal disinhibition; H-reflex
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- American Diabetes Association [1-17ICTS-062]
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Impaired rate-dependent depression of the Hoffman reflex (HRDD) may serve as a biomarker of impaired spinal inhibition in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy. Stimulus averages at 1 Hz show potential in distinguishing patients with and without pain.
Impaired rate-dependent depression of the Hoffman reflex (HRDD) is a potential biomarker of impaired spinal inhibition in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy. However, the optimum stimulus-response parameters that identify patients with spinal disinhibition are currently unknown. We systematically compared HRDD, performed using trains of 10 stimuli at five stimulation frequencies (0.3, 0.5, 1, 2 and 3 Hz), in 42 subjects with painful and 62 subjects with painless diabetic neuropathy with comparable neuropathy severity, and 34 healthy controls. HRDD was calculated using individual and mean responses compared to the initial response. At stimulation frequencies of 1, 2 and 3 Hz, HRDD was significantly impaired in patients with painful diabetic neuropathy compared to patients with painless diabetic neuropathy for all parameters and for most parameters when compared to healthy controls. HRDD was significantly enhanced in patients with painless diabetic neuropathy compared to controls for responses towards the end of the 1 Hz stimulation train. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis in patients with and without pain showed that the area under the curve was greatest for response averages of stimuli 2-4 and 2-5 at 1 Hz, AUC = 0.84 (95%CI 0.76-0.92). Trains of 5 stimuli delivered at 1 Hz can segregate patients with painful diabetic neuropathy and spinal disinhibition, whereas longer stimulus trains are required to segregate patients with painless diabetic neuropathy and enhanced spinal inhibition.
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