Infectious Disease Compendium

Neuritis / Neuropathy

Diagnosis

Inflammation of peripheral nerves. Symptoms depend on which nerve, sensory or motor or cranial, that is involved.

(Review)

Epidemiologic Risks

It depends on the cause.

Microbiology

Leprosy, Trypanosomas, Lyme, Zoster, Herpes Simplex, Syphilis, and Cytomegalovirus, Hepatitis E, HIV, and more.

Empiric Therapy

It depends on what you suspect.

Pearls

It usually gets down to doing a search of whatever underlying problems and medications the patient has and seeing if it causes neuropathy or neuritis. Like myocarditis, the results are rarely satisfying.

Last Update: 11/12/18.