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===[[Weakness]]=== | ===[[Weakness]]=== | ||
*'''Neuromuscular weakness''' | *'''Neuromuscular weakness''' | ||
** | **Upper motor neuron: | ||
*** [[CVA (Main)|CVA]] | *** [[CVA (Main)|CVA]] | ||
*** [[Hemorrhagic stroke]] | *** [[Hemorrhagic stroke]] | ||
*** [[Multiple sclerosis]] | *** [[Multiple sclerosis]] | ||
*** [[Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)]] (UMN & LMN) | *** [[Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)]] (UMN & LMN) | ||
** | **Lower motor neuron: | ||
*** Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's syndrome) | *** Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's syndrome) | ||
**Spinal cord disease: | **Spinal cord disease: | ||
Revision as of 17:44, 12 August 2017
Weakness
- Neuromuscular weakness
- Upper motor neuron:
- Lower motor neuron:
- Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's syndrome)
- Spinal cord disease:
- Infection (Epidural abscess)
- Infarction/ischemia
- Trauma (Spinal Cord Syndromes)
- Inflammation (Transverse Myelitis)
- Degenerative (Spinal muscular atrophy)
- Tumor
- Peripheral nerve disease:
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Toxins (Ciguatera)
- Tick paralysis
- DM neuropathy (non-emergent)
- NMJ disease:
- Muscle disease:
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Dermatomyositis
- Polymyositis
- Alcoholic myopathy
- Non-neuromuscular weakness
- Can't miss diagnoses:
- ACS
- Arrhythmia/Syncope
- severe infection/Sepsis
- Hypoglycemia
- Periodic paralysis (electrolyte disturbance, K, Mg, Ca)
- Respiratory failure
- Emergent Diagnoses:
- Symptomatic Anemia
- Severe dehydration
- Hypothyroidism
- Polypharmacy
- Malignancy
- Other causes of weakness and paralysis
- Acute intermittent porphyria (ascending weakness)
- Can't miss diagnoses: