Abstract
A retrospective study of 15 diabetic patients (20 hands), who underwent carpal tunnel release, was performed to determine the outcome. All patients had a minimum of 18 months of follow-up. Outcome was considered excellent if there was complete resolution of symptoms and this occurred in 35% of the treated hands. Eight hands (40%) had a good outcome with significant improvement of pre-operative symptoms. Outcome was considered poor when symptoms were minimally improved, hanged, or worse after surgery and this occurred in 25% of treated hands. All hands with a poor final result had either no electrodiagnostic evidence of localized compression or only mild compression in pre-operative nerve conduction studies. It was postulated that the contribution of localized compression to pre-operative hand symptoms was less than the contribution of peripheral neuropathy in these hands.
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