neuropathic arthropathy
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Channel: CarloOllerMD · 2015 · Education
Charcot arthropathy, or neuropathic arthropathy, is a condition that affects some diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathy (loss of sensation) after eight to 10 years. Jean Martin Charcot was a French physician who in 1868 described neuropathic arthropathy primarily in patients with advanced syphilis. At that time, people with diabetes did not live very long because insulin was unavailable to treat diabetes. Once insulin was available and diabetes treatable, it was in the 1930s that neuropathic arthropathy was recognized in diabetics. It may also occur with several other diseases that affect the sensory nervous system (alcoholism, leprosy, syphilis, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease to name a few). In the United States, diabetes is the number-one cause.
