[Implication of alpha-lipoic acid preparations in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy].

Twenty-eight patients, 17 women and 11 men, aged 40-70 years, with distal sensory-motor diabetic neuropathy of the lower extremities were treated with berlition, an alpha-lipoic acid preparation, in dosage 600 mg daily during 3 months. The treatment resulted in the significant reduction of clinical (sensory and motor) and neurological changes of lower extremity peripheral nerves.