Klin Farmakol Farm. 2014;28(3):112-116

Drug-induced peripheral neuropathies

Štefan Alušík1, Zoltán Paluch2,3
1 Institut postgraduálního vzdělávání ve zdravotnictví, Praha
2 Farmakologický ústav 1. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy, Oddělení klinické farmakologie, Všeobecná fakultní nemocnice, Praha
3 Vysoká škola zdravotníctva a sociálnej práce sv. Alžbety v Bratislave, Ústav sv. Jana N. Neumanna, Příbram

The paper examines drugs of individual drug classes that are most likely to cause peripheral nerve injury. The authors describe the clinical

features of injury in individual drugs as well as discuss the mechanism of injury, predisposing factors, relation to dose and cumulative

dose, reversibility, and importance of early recognition of nerve injury. They suggest that drug-induced neuropathies are more frequent

than currently believed.

Keywords: peripheral neuropathies, drugs, vaccines

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