Evaluation of the sweat losses in sensory polyganglionopathy (SPG)

• Grant number: 13/03150-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: July 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Amilton Antunes Barreira
• Grantee: Rodrigo Melo Conde
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/25893-3 - Spatial acuity for pain and its relationship with somatic sensory and autonomic measures in small fiber neuropathy, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The evaluation of autonomic nervous system (ANS) disturbances in association with peripheral neuropathies (PN) predominantly sensory, motor or sensory-motor is important for different reasons. 1) The ANS can be significantly damaged in PN. 2) Monitoring the ANS involvement can be a way to evaluate results of treatment and outcome of PN. 3) The adequate grading of signs and symptoms of NP for scientific clinical investigation needs to include ANS evaluations. 4) ANS evaluation can help the etiological diagnosis of PN. Evaluation of sweat losses associated to PN concerning the entire human body hasn't been studied extensively in the last years. The present project aims to evaluate the sweat losses in patients with sensory ganglionopathy (SG), and it intends to verify the possibility of association of sweat losses and sensory losses including the modalities carried by thin fibers (<7,0µm or less diameter). The sweat losses will be evaluated by entire body qualitative sweat test. The result of the studies proposed here may contribute for the advance of the knowledge on PN for the reasons highlighted in the first phrase of this abstract, and also to the specific knowledge of SG. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CONDE, R. M.; BARREIRA, A. A.. AN UP-TO-DATE REVIEW ON SWEATING DISTURBANCES IN GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME. JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, v. 22, n. 3, p. 2-pg., 2017-09-01. (12/07165-2, 13/03150-3)

CONDE, R. M.; FUSCO, T.; MARTINEZ, A. R.; FRANCA, M. C., JR.; MARQUES, W., JR.; BARREIRA, A. A.. SWEATING DISTURBANCES IN SENSORY NEURONOPATHY. JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, v. 22, n. 3, p. 1-pg., 2017-09-01. (12/07165-2, 13/26410-0, 13/03150-3)

CONDE, RODRIGO; FUSCO, TATIANA; TOMASELLI, PEDRO; JUNIOR, WILSON; BARREIRO, AMILTON. Sweating disturbances and thermal sensory profile in cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS). JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, v. 23, n. 4, p. 1-pg., 2018-12-01. (12/07165-2, 13/26410-0, 13/03150-3)