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Underlying conditions list:
The list of possible underlying conditions
mentioned in various sources
for Peripheral neuropathy includes:
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy - diabetes is a very common cause
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome - a genetic syndrome causing peripheral neuropathy
- Uremia
- AIDs
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Nerve entrapment
- Nerve compression
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Trauma
- Penetrating injuries
- Contusions
- Fractures
- Dislocated bones
- Prolonged use of crutches
- Staying in one position for too long
- Tumor
- Intraneural hemorrhage
- Cold exposure
- Radiation exposure
- Certain medicines
- Certain toxic substances
- Atherosclerosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Scleroderma
- Sarcoidosis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 6 - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 11 - peripheral neuropathy
- Inhalant abuse - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1F2 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1A - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF30_0206 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF22_01A1 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF20_BG - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF13_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF12_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF04_ cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- Alcoholism - peripheral neuropathy
- Toluene sniffing syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Subacute myelo-optico neuropathy syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Refsum disease with increased pipecolic acidemia - peripheral neuropathy
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Hypobetalipoproteinaemia - ataxia - hearing loss - peripheral neuropathy
- Deafness peripheral - neuropathy - arterial disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 6 - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 11 - peripheral neuropathy
- Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System - peripheral neuropathy
- Stavudine
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Diabetes mellitus type 1
- Refsum's disease
- Arylsulphatase A deficiency
- Familial alphalipoprotein deficiency
- Postvaccinal
- Beri-Beri
- Porphyria - peripheral neuropathy
- Type 1 diabetes - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 7 - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 12 - peripheral neuropathy
- Refractory Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-2A - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1M - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1B - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF41_CD - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF40_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF07_BC - peripheral neuropathy
- Spinocerebellar ataxia, Machado-Joseph type III - peripheral neuropathy
- Microscopic Polyangiitis - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 7 - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 12 - peripheral neuropathy
- Thalidomide
- Melarsoprol
- Alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase deficiency
- Pernicious anaemia
- Chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Oxaliplatin
- Leprosy
- Drug intoxication
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Type 1 diabetes related Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 8 - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 13 - peripheral neuropathy
- Pediatric AIDS - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-2B - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1N - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1C - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF35_AD - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF08_BC - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF06_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- Autoimmune thyroid disease associated Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Adhesive addiction - peripheral neuropathy
- Type 2 diabetes - peripheral neuropathy
- Lead poisoning - peripheral neuropathy
- Desmin related myopathy - peripheral neuropathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with ptosis and parkinsonism - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 8 - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 13 - peripheral neuropathy
- Angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia - peripheral neuropathy
- MELAS
- Haemochromatosis
- Isoniazid
- Shy-Drager syndrome
- Hypophosphataemia
- Spondylosis
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency - peripheral neuropathy
- Benign symmetrical lipomatosis of Madelung
- Diphtheria
- Turner syndrome associated Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 9 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-2 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1O - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1D - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF42_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF25_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF23_BG - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF21_A2D - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF14_BG - peripheral neuropathy
- Spastic paraplegia 23 - peripheral neuropathy
- Pernicious anemia - peripheral neuropathy
- De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 9 - peripheral neuropathy
- Lamivudine
- Thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency
- McLeod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome
- Polyradiculoneuropathy, chronic inflammatory
- Renal failure, chronic
- Zalcitabine
- Amyloid polyneuropathy (Portuguese)
- HIV-1E - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF24_BG - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF05_ D/F - peripheral neuropathy
- Collagenous celiac disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Spastic paraplegia 30, autosomal recessive - peripheral neuropathy
- Selenium - overuse - peripheral neuropathy
- Hypomyelination and congenital cataract - peripheral neuropathy
- Cervical hypertrichosis neuropathy - peripheral neuropathy
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosus - peripheral neuropathy
- Hereditary sensorimotor neuropathy type 2
- Trigeminal causalgia
- Neurilemmoma
- Toxic neuropathy
- HIV-1F - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1A1 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF43_02G - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF36_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF27_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF18_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF17_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- Adhesive abuse - peripheral neuropathy
- Tyrosinemia - peripheral neuropathy
- Rosenberg-Chutorian Syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Pfiesteria piscicida infection - peripheral neuropathy
- Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Hypomyelination - congenital cataract - peripheral neuropathy
- Chemical poisoning - Hexane - peripheral neuropathy
- Cervical hypertrichosis - peripheral neuropathy - peripheral neuropathy
- Hereditary sensorimotor neuropathy type 3
- Gold salts
- Disulfiram
- Systemic sclerosis
- Arsenicals
- Mercury
- Legionella pneumophila
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 1 - peripheral neuropathy
- Solvent addiction - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1G - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1A2 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF37_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF32_06A1 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF19_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- Aerosol addiction - peripheral neuropathy
- Refsum Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 1 - peripheral neuropathy
- Black widow spider envenomation - peripheral neuropathy
- Mixed essential cryoglobulinaemia
- Vasculitis
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae
- Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4
- Porphobilinogen synthase deficiency
- Amphotericin B
- Herpes zoster
- Amyloid neuropathy
- Paraproteinemia
- Carcinoma
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 2 - peripheral neuropathy
- Sjogren's Syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Psychiatric disorders associated Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1H - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1A3 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF28_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF16_ A2D - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF01_AE - peripheral neuropathy
- Down's syndrome associated Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Vitamin B6 - adverse effects - peripheral neuropathy
- Neuropathy, distal hereditary motor, type VIIA - peripheral neuropathy
- Immunoglobulinic amyloidosis - peripheral neuropathy
- Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1A - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 2 - peripheral neuropathy
- Infraorbital nerve dehiscence
- Bortezomib
- Colchicine
- Compartment syndrome
- Arsenic trioxide
- Paclitaxel
- Malabsorption syndrome
- Parvovirus B19 infection
- Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Klumpke paralysis
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 3 - peripheral neuropathy
- Inhalant addiction - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF38_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF29_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF26_AU - peripheral neuropathy
- Polyradiculoneuropathy - peripheral neuropathy
- Inclusion Body Myositis - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 3 - peripheral neuropathy
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - peripheral neuropathy
- Neurofibromatosis type 2
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Metronidazole
- Altretamine
- Myeloma
- Pituitary tumour (growth hormone secreting)
- Benign monoclonal gammopathy
- Vitamin B6 deficiency
- Fracture of bone
- Hypothyroidism
- Diabetes - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 4 - peripheral neuropathy
- Solvent abuse - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1J - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF39_BF - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF33_01B - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF31_BC - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF15_01B - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF11_cpx - peripheral neuropathy
- Aerosol abuse - peripheral neuropathy
- Waldenström Macroglobulinemia - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 4 - peripheral neuropathy
- Amyloidosis - peripheral neuropathy
- Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Nitrofurantoin
- Didanosine
- Vitamin B12 deficiency - peripheral neuropathy
- Clioquinol
- Cholestanol storage disease
- Paget's disease of bone
- Radiation
- William's syndrome associated Celiac Disease - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 5 - peripheral neuropathy
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 10 - peripheral neuropathy
- Pinched Nerve - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1K - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1F1 - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF34_01B - peripheral neuropathy
- HIV-1, CRF02_AG - peripheral neuropathy
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy - peripheral neuropathy
- Metabolic Syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Hepatorenal tyrosinemia - peripheral neuropathy
- Diabetic neuropathy - Peripheral Neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 5 - peripheral neuropathy
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 10 - peripheral neuropathy
- Cisplatin
- Amiodarone
- Cockayne syndrome - peripheral neuropathy
- Superior orbital fissure syndrome
- POEMS syndrome
- Paraneoplastic syndrome
- Ethambutol
- Vincristine
- Heavy metals
- Genetic diseases: Friedreich's ataxia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome
- Metabolic/Endocrine: diabetes mellitus, Chronic renal failure, porphyria, amyloidosis, liver failure, hypothyroidism
- Toxic causes: alcoholism, drugs (vincristine, phenytoin, isoniazid), organic metals, heavy metals, excess intake of Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)]
- Fluoroquinolone toxicity: Irreversible neuropathy is a serious adverse reaction of Fluoroquinolone drugs
- Inflammatory diseases: Guillain-Barré syndrome, systemic lupus erythematosis, leprosy, Sjögren's syndrome
- Vitamin deficiency states: vitamin B12, vitamin A, vitamin E, thiamin(vitaminB1)
- Physical trauma: compression, pinching, cutting, projectile injuries (i.e. gunshot wound),strokes including prolonged occlusion of blood flow
- Others: shingles, malignant disease, HIV , radiation, chemotherapy
Other underlying conditions related to Peripheral neuropathy:
Source: Diseases Database
Peripheral neuropathy as a complication:
Other conditions that might have
Peripheral neuropathy as a complication
might be potential underlying conditions.
The list of conditions listing
Peripheral neuropathy as a complication
includes:
- Adhesive abuse
- Adhesive addiction
- Aerosol abuse
- Aerosol addiction
- Alcoholism
- Autoimmune thyroid disease associated Celiac Disease
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
- Chylomicron Retention Disease
- Collagenous celiac disease
- Diabetes
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- Down's syndrome associated Celiac Disease
- HIV-1, CRF01_AE
- HIV-1, CRF02_AG
- HIV-1, CRF04_ cpx
- HIV-1, CRF05_ D/F
- HIV-1, CRF06_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF07_BC
- HIV-1, CRF08_BC
- HIV-1, CRF11_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF12_BF
- HIV-1, CRF13_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF14_BG
- HIV-1, CRF15_01B
- HIV-1, CRF16_ A2D
- HIV-1, CRF17_BF
- HIV-1, CRF18_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF19_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF20_BG
- HIV-1, CRF21_A2D
- HIV-1, CRF22_01A1
- HIV-1, CRF23_BG
- HIV-1, CRF24_BG
- HIV-1, CRF25_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF26_AU
- HIV-1, CRF27_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF28_BF
- HIV-1, CRF29_BF
- HIV-1, CRF30_0206
- HIV-1, CRF31_BC
- HIV-1, CRF32_06A1
- HIV-1, CRF33_01B
- HIV-1, CRF34_01B
- HIV-1, CRF35_AD
- HIV-1, CRF36_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF37_cpx
- HIV-1, CRF38_BF
- HIV-1, CRF39_BF
- HIV-1, CRF40_BF
- HIV-1, CRF41_CD
- HIV-1, CRF42_BF
- HIV-1, CRF43_02G
- HIV-1A
- HIV-1A1
- HIV-1A2
- HIV-1A3
- HIV-1B
- HIV-1C
- HIV-1D
- HIV-1E
- HIV-1F
- HIV-1F1
- HIV-1F2
- HIV-1G
- HIV-1H
- HIV-1J
- HIV-1K
- HIV-1M
- HIV-1N
- HIV-1O
- HIV-2
- HIV-2A
- HIV-2B
- Inhalant abuse
- Inhalant addiction
- Lupus
- Medullary cystic kidney disease
- Medullary cystic kidney disease, dominant
- Nephronophthisis, autosomal dominant
- Pediatric AIDS
- Pinched Nerve
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Porphyria
- Psychiatric disorders associated Celiac Disease
- Refractory Celiac Disease
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Solvent abuse
- Solvent addiction
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 1
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 10
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 11
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 12
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 13
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 2
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 3
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 4
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 5
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 6
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 7
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 8
- Susceptibility to Celiac Disease 9
- Turner syndrome associated Celiac Disease
- Type 1 diabetes
- Type 1 diabetes related Celiac Disease
- Type 2 diabetes
- William's syndrome associated Celiac Disease
Peripheral neuropathy Causes: Book Excerpts
Peripheral neuropathy as a symptom:
Conditions listing Peripheral neuropathy
as a symptom may also be potential underlying conditions.
For a more detailed analysis of Peripheral neuropathy as a symptom, including causes, drug side effect causes, and drug interaction causes, please see our Symptom Center information for Peripheral neuropathy.
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome
- Amyloidosis
- Angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia
- Ataxia - oculomotor apraxia, type 1
- Ataxia-oculomotor apraxia syndrome
- Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System
- Black widow spider envenomation
- Borud Syndrome
- CDG syndrome type 1A
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 1
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 10
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 11
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 12
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 13
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 2
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 3
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 4
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 5
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 6
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 7
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 8
- Celiac disease, susceptibility to 9
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosus
- Cervical hypertrichosis - peripheral neuropathy
- Cervical hypertrichosis neuropathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with ptosis and parkinsonism
- Chemical poisoning - Disulfiram
- Chemical poisoning - Hexane
- Chemical poisoning - Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans
- Churg-Strauss Syndrome
- Cockayne syndrome
- Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1A
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation Type Ia
- De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome
- Deafness peripheral - neuropathy - arterial disease
- Desmin related myopathy
- Diabetes
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Gräsbeck-Imerslund disease
- Hagemoser Weinstein Bresnick syndrome
- Hepatorenal tyrosinemia
- Hypobetalipoproteinaemia - ataxia - hearing loss
- Hypomyelination - congenital cataract
- Hypomyelination and congenital cataract
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Imerslünd-Grasbeck Syndrome
- Immunoglobulinic amyloidosis
- Inclusion Body Myositis
- Lead poisoning
- Lupus
- Megaloblastic Anemia 1
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Microscopic Polyangiitis
- Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency
- Neuropathy, distal hereditary motor, type VIIA
- Optic atrophy, deafness and peripheral neuropathy
- Optic atrophy, hearing loss and peripheral neuropathy
- Optic atrophy, hearing loss and peripheral neuropathy, autosomal recessive
- Peripheral Neuropathy - Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction - Deafness
- Pernicious anemia
- Pfiesteria piscicida infection
- Polyneuropathy - Ophthalmoplegia - Leukoencehalopathy - Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction
- Polyradiculoneuropathy
- Refsum Disease
- Refsum disease with increased pipecolic acidemia
- Rosenberg-Chutorian Syndrome
- Selective Vitamin B12 malabsorption with Proteinuria
- Selenium - overuse
- Spastic paraplegia 23
- Spastic paraplegia 30, autosomal recessive
- Spinocerebellar ataxia, Machado-Joseph type III
- Subacute myelo-optico neuropathy syndrome
- Toluene sniffing syndrome
- Type 2 diabetes
- Tyrosinemia
- Van Bogaert disease
- Van Bogaert's disease
- Van Bogaert-Scherer-Epstein Disease
- Vitamin B12 Deficiency
- Vitamin B6 - adverse effects
- Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
- Xanthomatosis cerebrotendinous
Discussion of underlying conditions of Peripheral neuropathy:
Many
neuropathies have well-defined causes such as diabetes, uremia, AIDs, or
nutritional deficiencies. In fact, diabetes is one of the most common
causes of peripheral neuropathy. Other causes include mechanical pressure
such as compression or entrapment, direct trauma, penetrating injuries,
contusions, fracture or dislocated bones; pressure involving the
superficial nerves (ulnar, radial, or peroneal) which can result from
prolonged use of crutches or staying in one position for too long, or from
a tumor; intraneural hemorrhage; exposure to cold or radiation or, rarely,
certain medicines or toxic substances; and vascular or collagen disorders
such as atherosclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma,
sarcoidosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and polyarteritis nodosa.
A common example of entrapment neuropathy is carpal tunnel syndrome,
which has become more common because of the increasing use of computers.
Although the causes of peripheral neuropathy are diverse, they produce
common symptoms including weakness, numbness, paresthesia (abnormal
sensations such as burning, tickling, pricking or tingling) and pain in
the arms, hands, legs and/or feet. A large number of cases are of unknown
cause.
(Source: excerpt from NINDS Peripheral Neuropathy Information Page: NINDS)
About underlying conditions:
With a diagnosis of Peripheral neuropathy,
it is important to consider
whether there is an underlying condition causing Peripheral neuropathy.
These are other medical conditions that may possibly
cause Peripheral neuropathy.
For general information on this form of misdiagnosis, see Underlying Condition Misdiagnosis
or Overview of Misdiagnosis.
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