Our Lab:·
Our Lab is a leading histopathology lab designed to assist our physicians and patients in diagnosing small nerve peripheral neuropathy.
• We offer a nationwide IN-NETWORK lab whose mission is to better assist providers in specimen referral and turnaround times.
• Our goal is to facilitate in faster reporting times and better outcomes for patients. Our services can reduce overall healthcare costs, unnecessary surgeries, unnecessary treatments and improve patient care.
Key Points for Small Fiber Neuropathy Testing:
Small Fiber Neuropathy:
“Small-Fiber Neuropathy Getting Bigger” was the title of an article printed in the March 2016 edition of Muscle and Nerve. This is the most prestigious journal in the peripheral neuropathy in the world. The article cites that hundreds of thousands of patients may suffer from this condition and it is only going to get worse.
With Small-Fiber Neuropathy growing rapidly in the US, the time is now to help educate our physicians and patients in the diagnosis and treatment of SFN.
Our Lab is one of the few histopathology labs in the country that can do just that…..and do it all IN-NETWORK.
Our Lab is a leading histopathology lab designed to assist our physicians and patients in diagnosing small nerve peripheral neuropathy.
• We offer a nationwide IN-NETWORK lab whose mission is to better assist providers in specimen referral and turnaround times.
• Our goal is to facilitate in faster reporting times and better outcomes for patients. Our services can reduce overall healthcare costs, unnecessary surgeries, unnecessary treatments and improve patient care.
Key Points for Small Fiber Neuropathy Testing:
- Skin biopsy for Epidermal Nerve Fiber Density (ENFD) testing is a reliable tool for diagnosing small-fiber neuropathy (SFN).
- The sensitivity of skin biopsy in diagnosing small fiber neuropathy has been reported to be 88%.
- This is in comparison to 54% for the clinical examination, and 49% for quantitative sensory testing.
- The specificity of the test is 98%.
- Many diseases are associated with SFN such as diabetic neuropathy, alcoholic neuropathy, medication-induced neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and others.
- Skin biopsy is a safe procedure with minimal discomfort that allows somatic fibers carrying temperature and pain sensation to be differentiated from autonomic fibers.
- Loss of epidermal nerve fibers correlates with increased severity of neuropathy and a higher risk of developing neuropathic pain.
- Skin nerve fibers are able to regenerate, and their regrowth rate could be a marker of early axonal damage in patients at risk of developing peripheral neuropathy.
- A skin biopsy can be repeated in close proximity to a previous biopsy in order to assess the progression of neuropathy and the response to neuroprotective treatments and can be used as a measure of outcome in clinical trials.
Small Fiber Neuropathy:
“Small-Fiber Neuropathy Getting Bigger” was the title of an article printed in the March 2016 edition of Muscle and Nerve. This is the most prestigious journal in the peripheral neuropathy in the world. The article cites that hundreds of thousands of patients may suffer from this condition and it is only going to get worse.
With Small-Fiber Neuropathy growing rapidly in the US, the time is now to help educate our physicians and patients in the diagnosis and treatment of SFN.
Our Lab is one of the few histopathology labs in the country that can do just that…..and do it all IN-NETWORK.
