Table 2

Clinical data and neurophysiological findings in seven patients with neuropathy

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
All conduction measurements were within normal limits. A, high amplitude of MUPs; D, long duration of MUPs.
*Abnormal value.
Disease	Coeliac disease	Coeliac disease	Coeliac disease	Coeliac disease	Coeliac disease	Coeliac disease	Reflux disease
Time from diagnosis (y)	3	2	3	4	2	3	6
Sex	male	female	female	female	female	male	male
Age	70	56	77	65	60	67	54
Possible predisposing factor	no	no	no	no	Graves’ disease	alcohol	no
Clinical/subclinical neuropathy	clinical	clinical	subclinical	subclinical	subclinical	clinical	clinical
Motor nerve conduction
Median nerve (elbow–wrist)
Amplitude (mV)	3.4	2.1	3.3	8.2	3.9	3.4	3.7
Velocity (m/s)	54	53	49	54	64	52	56
Ulnar nerve (elbow–wrist)
Amplitude (mV)	8.3	6.2	7.5	8.6	11	6.9	6.5
Velocity (m/s)	55	66	63	64	66	49	64
Peroneal nerve (knee–ankle)
Amplitude (mV)	3.2	3.2	3.2	4.6	4.5	6.6	8.2
Velocity (m/s)	37	42	44	48	46	42	46
Sensory nerve conduction
Median nerve (wrist–digit 2)
Amplitude (μV)	6.1	45	4.8	38	28	8.5	24
Velocity (m/s)	54	56	48	58	67	50	58
Ulnar nerve (wrist–digit 5)
Amplitude (μV)	3.5	21	5.8	31	23	11	19
Velocity (m/s)	59	54	40	58	54	56	61
Sural nerve (calf–ankle)
Amplitude (μV)	2.7	4.4	7.3	4.7	8.2	12	4.4
Velocity (m/s)	48	54	45	47	54	42	64
EMG findings
m tibialis anterior
mean amplitude (SD)	4*	1.5	1.2	1.6	0.2	1.1	1.3
duration of MUPs (SD)	3.6*	2.5*	2.9*	3.9*	3.4*	0	2
Number of outliers	A9, D3	A1, D3*	A1, D7*	A2, D3*	A0, D1	A0, D0l	A3*, D2
m biceps brachii
mean amplitude (SD)	0.3	2.3	1.8	0.6	0	2.7*	0.6
duration of MUPs (SD)	0.2	1.8	-0.7	1.2	1.5	0.1	0
Number of outliers	A0, D1	A0, D0	A1, D0	A0, D1	A0, D5*	A0, D0	A0, D2
Heat pain threshold (°C)
Left thenar	54.4	47.1	44.7	50.5	49.4	48.1	49.2
Left foot	49.4	48.3	47.3	47.0	47.5	46.6	45.3
Tactile threshold (as10log of force, mg compressing skin)
Left leg
Dermatome L3	3.84	4.74*	5.07*	3.84	4.08	4.17	2.44
Dermatome S1	3.84	4.56	4.31	4.08	4.08	4.08	4.56