Table 1. Clinical data of individual patients.
Patients | Sex | Age (years) | Clinical Manifestation | Neurological dysfunction | ||
Sensory | Motor | Autonomic | ||||
1 | M | 45 | Hand and foot numbness and weakness, poor fine finger movement, muscle atrophy, urinary retention, reflex decline in knee and ankle | +++ | ++ | + |
2 | F | 38 | Hand and foot numbness and pain, diarrhea, tactile decline in knee and ankle, reflex decline in ankle | ++ | - | + |
3 | F | 56 | Hand and foot pain, urinary retention, tactile decline in wrist and ankle, reflex decline in ankle | ++ | - | + |
4 | M | 52 | Hand and foot numbness and weakness, muscle atrophy in fingers, squating and standing difficulties, diarrhea, tactile loss of tuning fork, reflex decline in knee and ankle | +++ | +++ | + |
5 | M | 58 | Hand and foot numbness, hypertension, black ulceration in the left great toe, pulsation decline in the dorsalis pedis artery | + | - | - |
6 | M | 46 | Feet numbness, sweating, urinary retention, reflex decline in knees and ankles | ++ | - | ++ |
7 | M | 51 | Right foot numbness, vision loss, intermittent diarrhea, reflex decline in knees and ankles | + | _ | + |
8 | F | 43 | Feet numbness, fast resting heart rate, shortened PR, reflex decline in knees and ankles | + | - | +++ |
9 | M | 41 | Intermittent numbness | + | - | - |
10 | F | 46 | Intermittent foot numbness and pain | + | - | - |
+ ∼ +++ represents the various extents of neurological dysfunction based on the symptoms and physical examination.