Department of Internal Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, College of Medicine, Al-Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Neurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Dec 22;102(51):e36768. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000036768.
Diabetic neuropathy, including autonomic neuropathy is a serious complication related to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). The vagus nerve (VN) is the longest nerve in the autonomic nervous system, and since diabetic neuropathy manifests first in longer nerves, the VN is commonly affected in early diabetic autonomic neuropathy. The use of high-resolution ultrasound for peripheral and cranial nerve imaging has significantly increased over the past 2 decades. The aim of the study is to compare the cross-sectional area of the VN in patients with T2D to that of a control cohort without T2D. A total of 52 VN cross-sectional areas were recorded from patients with T2D. A total of 56 VN cross-sectional areas were also recorded from asymptomatic subjects without T2D. In each subject, high-resolution ultrasound imaging of the bilateral VNs was performed in the short-axis between the common carotid artery and the internal jugular vein. The VN cross-sectional areas were recorded and compared. In the patients with T2D, HbA1c and fasting blood glucose levels were obtained as well as the duration of T2D in years and correlated with the cross-sectional areas. The bilateral VN cross-sectional areas were similar in both cohorts. Additionally, no correlation was seen between the VN cross-sectional areas, demographics, or clinical data of T2D. Our study demonstrated normal VN cross-sectional areas in patients with T2D without any significant relation with the patients' demographic or clinical data.
糖尿病性神经病,包括自主神经病,是与 2 型糖尿病(T2D)相关的严重并发症。迷走神经(VN)是自主神经系统中最长的神经,由于糖尿病性神经病首先在较长的神经中表现出来,因此 VN 在早期糖尿病自主神经病中通常受到影响。过去 20 年来,高分辨率超声在周围和颅神经成像中的应用显著增加。本研究旨在比较 T2D 患者的 VN 横截面积与无 T2D 的对照组的 VN 横截面积。从 T2D 患者中记录了总共 52 个 VN 横截面积。还从无症状、无 T2D 的受试者中记录了总共 56 个 VN 横截面积。在每个受试者中,在颈总动脉和颈内静脉之间的短轴上对双侧 VN 进行高分辨率超声成像。记录并比较 VN 横截面积。在 T2D 患者中,获得了 HbA1c 和空腹血糖水平以及 T2D 的持续时间(以年计),并与横截面积相关联。两个队列的双侧 VN 横截面积相似。此外,VN 横截面积与 T2D 的人口统计学或临床数据之间没有相关性。我们的研究表明,T2D 患者的 VN 横截面积正常,与患者的人口统计学或临床数据没有任何显著关系。