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Function Assessment in Metabolic Disorders: Diabetes Mellitus, Hemodialysis, and Gout

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Metabolic diseases affect the function of the hand by making musculoskeletal involvement

Metabolic diseases, including chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis, gout, and diabetes mellitus, impair hand function by affecting musculoskeletal system, causing hemodynamic, vascular, or neurological dysfunctions. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), destructive arthropathy, bone cyst, bone erosions, and tendon abnormalities are seen in the patients receiving hemodialysis. Diabetes mellitus is associated with an increased incidence of functional disability. The complications of diabetes mellitus seen in the hand are diabetic stiff hand syndrome, Dupuytren’s disease, CTS, trigger finger, complex regional pain syndrome type-1, and neuropathy. Patients with gout have monosodium urate crystals deposited in the tendon, joints, and nerve. Tophi leads to destructive arthropathy and presents on the fingers and volar surface of the hands. Muscle strength test, range-of-motion evaluation, hand dexterity, and daily activity tests could be conducted to assess the extent of damage in those patients. In this chapter, the musculoskeletal and the other involvements of the hand were mentioned. Additionally, the tests evaluating hand functions and index which were used for evaluating hand disability were reviewed.

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Soyupek, F., Akkuş, S. (2019). Function Assessment in Metabolic Disorders: Diabetes Mellitus, Hemodialysis, and Gout. In: Duruöz, M. (eds) Hand Function. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17000-4_18

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