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Diabetic amyotrophy, a complication of diabetes, is diabetic neuropathy characterized by muscle wasting and weakness. It affects the lower limbs and is typically asymmetric. Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury. ... This article is about the disease that features high blood sugar. ... Diabetic neuropathies are neuropathic disorders that are associated with diabetes mellitus. ... Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ...
Clinical presentation
proximal muscle wasting and tenderness of thigh muscles
loss of knee reflexes
seen in older men with diabetes
frequently CSF(cerebrospinal fluid)protein is elevated
usually occurs when diabetes is poorly controlled and resolves with good control ie the condition is reversible.
Reference:KUMAR &CLARK CLINICAL MEDICINE 5TH EDITION PAGE NO:1098
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