Muscular Atrophy: Causes & Reasons - Symptoma South Africa

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Possible Causes for Muscular Atrophy

Muscular Dystrophy

Spinal muscular atrophies: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or motor neuron disease Infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy Intermediate spinal muscular atrophy [urmc.rochester.edu]

Spinal muscular atrophies Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or motor neuron disease Infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy Intermediate spinal muscular atrophy Juvenile [hopkinsmedicine.org]

muscular dystrophy Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Myotonia congenita Myotonic dystrophy Charcot Marie Tooth disease (hereditary sensory motor neuropathy) At the Pediatric [ynhh.org]

Progressive Muscular Atrophy

The name "spinal muscular atrophy" is ambiguous as it refers to any of various spinal muscular atrophies, including the autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy caused [en.wikipedia.org]

KEYWORDS: Lower motor neuron syndrome; Lower motor neuron-onset ALS; PMA; Progressive muscular atrophy [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

What Is Progressive Muscular Atrophy? Progressive muscular atrophy is an inherited form of motor neuron disease. [healthcare.utah.edu]

Motor Neuron Disease

Some MNDs, such as ALS and some forms of spinal muscular atrophy, are fatal. [ninds.nih.gov]

A somewhat better prognosis is seen in progressive muscular atrophy, where patients live up to 25 years. [symptoma.com]

Some MNDs, such as ALS and some forms of spinal muscular atrophy, are fatal. What research is being done? [ninds.nih.gov]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

The patients were a 54-year-old man with progressive muscular atrophy who underwent removal of internal fixators in the arm and leg, and a 66-year-old woman with amyotrophic [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

BACKGROUND: Informal caregivers of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA) face stressful demands due to severe impairments [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Primary Lateral Sclerosis

This locus had not been implicated in ALS or in hereditary spastic parapareses, spinal muscular atrophy, or spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. [7] A genetically mediated [emedicine.com]

atrophy (PMA) and spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) Upper and lower motor neurons - ALS ALS is the most common of the MNDs. [emedicine.com]

The traditional classification of MNDs is according to the affected cell types, as follows: Upper motor neurons alone - PLS Lower motor neurons alone - Progressive muscular [emedicine.com]

Multifocal Motor Neuropathy

Abstract Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) and progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) are associated with IgM monoclonal gammopathy or the presence IgM anti-GM1-antibodies. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Atrophy? [jscimedcentral.com]

Monoclonal gammopathy was determined by immunoelectrophoresis and immunofixation in serum from 445 patients with ALS, 158 patients with progressive muscular atrophy (PMA), [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Becker Muscular Dystrophy

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence, nature and scope of pain in adolescents with spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne and Becker muscular [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

muscular atrophy (SMA). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Two other patients with a deletion of exon 47 showed progressive muscular atrophy and weakness; they were considered to be typical BMD in both clinical features and the type [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Erb Muscular Dystrophy

At that time, the differentiation between the spinal muscular atrophies and weakness associated with central nervous system disorders and primary muscle disease had not been [emedicine.medscape.com]

A heterogeneous group of genetic disorders characterized by progressive muscular atrophy and muscle weakness beginning in the hands, the legs, or the feet. [icd10data.com]

atrophy • proximal weakness • onset of weakness is earlier in childhood • absent deep tendon reflexes and fasciculations • CPK levels are normal • pseudohypertrophy is absent [orthobullets.com]

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

2015 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 356.1 Peroneal muscular atrophy 2015 Billable Thru Sept 30/2015 Non-Billable On/After Oct 1/2015 ICD-9-CM 356.1 is a billable medical code that [icd9data.com]

atrophy Peroneal muscular atrophy Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease、C-M-T [wikidata.org]

atrophy ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 356.1 : [icd9data.com]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

[…] muscle atrophy survival motor neuron spinal muscular atrophy spinal muscular atrophies of childhood Spinal muscular atrophy Statements spinal-muscular-atrophy-pro Identifiers [wikidata.org]

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscular weakness. [symptoma.com]

Prenatal onset spinal muscular atrophy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Myotonic Dystrophy

Neuromuscular disorders like myotonic dystrophy (dystrophia myotonica or Steinert's disease) and spinal muscular atrophy are associated with perioperative complications related [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

New contributions to the theory of muscular atrophy in supranuclear paralysis especially in cerebral hemiplegia (Habilitationsschrift). [doi.org]

atrophy (most frequently involving the hands, forearms, and face), myotonia, frontal baldness, lenticular opacities, and testicular atrophy. [curlie.org]

Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

Muscle fatigability and atrophy are frequent clinical signs in limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), but their pathogenetic mechanisms are still poorly understood. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

atrophy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] by Duchenne.1,2 Other descriptions followed: familial atrophy of the pelvic girdle muscles (Leyden in 1876), scapulohumeral muscular atrophy (Erb in 1884), and myopathy with [dash.harvard.edu]

Adult Spinal Muscular Atrophy

[…] spinal muscular atrophy and juvenile asymmetric segmental spinal muscular atrophy. [symptoma.com]

[…] childhood Spinal muscular atrophies of childhood Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy Spinal [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Spinal muscular atrophy type 4, SMA type 4 Overview Adult-onset spinal muscular atrophy atrophy ( also known as Spinal muscular atrophy type 4, SMA type 4) is a disorder that [checkorphan.org]

Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

The objectives of this study were to determine the effects that routine daily home air-stacking maneuvers have on pulmonary function in patients with spinal muscular atrophy [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

atrophy, forms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and Marfan syndrome (see these terms). [orpha.net]

Dystrophy - som.unm.edu/programs/opmd Spinal Muscular Atrophy - smaregistry.iu.edu [cmdir.org]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3

Best practice guidelines for molecular analysis in spinal muscular atrophy. Eur J Hum Genet. 2001;9(7):484-91. D'Amico A, et al. Spinal muscular atrophy. [genetics4medics.com]

What is spinal muscular atrophy? [christopherreeve.org]

Spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) are neurodegenerative disorders caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. [symptoma.com]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1

What is spinal muscular atrophy? [christopherreeve.org]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK has more information about type 1 SMA. [nhs.uk]

Spinal muscular atrophies are a group of neurodegenerative disorders in which genetic mutations lead to progressive damage of motor neurons in the spinal cord. [symptoma.com]

Diabetic Amyotrophy

Treating of spinal muscular atrophy A form of the disease differ in severity, so treatment is adjusted individually. [health-factbook.com]

UPDATED November 20,2018 – Spinal muscular atrophy or SMA is a group of genetically inherited progressive neuromuscular diseases. [stemcellthailand.org]

Biros I, Forrest S (1999) Spinal muscular atrophy: Untangling the knot? J Med Genet 36: 1-8. [omicsonline.org]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 5

atrophy and related syndromes G12.0 Infantile spinal muscular atrophy, type I [Werdnig-Hoffman] G12.1 Other inherited spinal muscular atrophy G12.2 Motor neuron disease G12.21 [icd10data.com]

[…] are affected before the distal parts. [6] Thus the pattern of muscular atrophy in our patient differed from that of typical ALS or progressive spinal muscular atrophy in that [neurologyindia.com]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy. A Timely Review. Arch Neurol. 2011;68:979-984. PubMed. Harding BN, Kariya S, Monani UR, et al. [neuropathology-web.org]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 6

Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA) A progressive neurological disease in which the lower motor neurons deteriorate. [my.clevelandclinic.org]

Study of 962 patients indicates progressive muscular atrophy is a form of ALS. Neurology (2009). doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c1dea3 Visser, J. et al. [mda.org]

ALS Juvenile Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Included Kugelberg-Welander Disease Primary Lateral Sclerosis Progressive Bulbar Palsy, Included Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type ALS Upper [rarediseases.org]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 3

atrophy type IV) 등)이나 중금속 중독으로 인한 운동신경원질환으로 진단 받은 자 12) 본 임상시험 참여 4주 이내에 타 임상시험용 의약품을 투여 받거나 임상시험용 의료기기를 시술받은 자 13) 임신부, 수유부, 임신계획이 있거나 의학적으로 적절한 피임방법 외 경구용 (피임약,호르몬 이식, [cris.nih.go.kr]

Atrophy) 증상 뇌의 신경세포 특히 운동 신경원의 퇴행, 손발의 마비에 의한 운동장애, 근육쇠약, 호흡부전, 연하곤란(Dysphagia), 구음장애 관련 클리닉 질환정보 자세히 보기 [raredisease.snuh.org]

[…] are affected before the distal parts.[6] Thus the pattern of muscular atrophy in our patient differed from that of typical ALS or progressive spinal muscular atrophy in that [neurologyindia.com]

Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome

The rate of progression of post-poliomyelitis muscular atrophy is quite variable. [nejm.org]

atrophy, and poliomyelitis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The symptoms and signs of PPS include new muscle weakness and atrophy (post-poliomyelitis progressive muscular atrophy; PPMA),as well as other musculoskeletal symptoms such [ci.nii.ac.jp]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 9

muscular atrophy with pyramidal signs and some forms of hereditary distal motor neuropathy. [scielo.br]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 11

Generalized fasciculations were observed with no muscular atrophy or muscle weakness. Tendon reflexes were increased with bilateral Jacobson sign. [journals.lww.com]

muscular atrophy with pyramidal signs and some forms of hereditary distal motor neuropathy. [scielo.br]

atrophy (PMA) cannot be diagnosed as ALS until a minimum of 2 body regions are affected, but relevant genetic testing to rule out other motor neuron diseases should also [ajmc.com]

Myoadenylate Deaminase Deficiency

The diagnoses in the 13 patients were: polyneuropathy (n = 5), infantile spinal muscular atrophy (n = 3), congenital myopathy with type 2 fibre atrophy, facioscapulohumeral [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

He is currently involved in multiple clinical trials of novel genetic interventions for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [books.google.com]

Myopathy, Endocrine

The muscular dystrophies The muscular dystrophies are a group of hereditary disorders characterized by progressive muscular atrophy and weakness. [britannica.com]

Muscular atrophy was more expressed than at TM patients. [scirp.org]

Electromyography Excludes primarily neurogenic processes (for example, spinal muscular atrophy). [patient.info]

Polyneuropathy

Neurologic examinations revealed diffuse muscular atrophy in his trunk, shoulders, upper limbs, thenar eminence and pelvic girdle. [jmedicalcasereports.biomedcentral.com]

Neuronal Peroneal Muscular Atrophy (HMSN II) Autosomal dominant inheritance is also the case with HMSN II. [lecturio.com]

atrophy & Responds to IVIg Infection Varicella Zoster ; Poliomyelitis ; Leprosy ; Lyme Disease Autoimmune Etiology Polyarteritis Nodosa Rheumatoid Arthritis Other Vasculitis [enotes.tripod.com]

Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

In late-stage Roche, they have treatments that are being tested for Alzheimer’s disease, Autism, and for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. [mdmag.com]

muscular atrophy）脊肌萎缩症伴有小脑发育不全（英语：Spinal muscular atrophy with pontocerebellar hypoplasia）脊肌萎缩症伴有较低极限优势（英语：Spinal muscular atrophy with lower extremity predominance）脊肌萎缩症伴有进行性肌阵挛性癫痫 [beichengjiu.com]

脊髄性筋萎縮症 Spinal muscular atrophy, SMA Type I 脊髄性筋萎縮症（SMA Type I） 1 HPS0158 HPS0159 Spinal muscular atrophy, SMA Type II 脊髄性筋萎縮症（SMA Type II） 1 不要有 HPS1391 HPS1392 HPS1393 [cell.brc.riken.jp]

Tay-Sachs Disease

atrophy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

They were first diagnosed as having atypical spinal muscular atrophy and, subsequently, spinocerebellar ataxia, but, recently, the diagnosis of late-onset Tay-Sachs disease [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Other symptoms can include ataxia, progressive dementia, psychosis, a vegetative state in some cases, muscular atrophy, and muscular denervation. [molecularbasisdisease.pbworks.com]

Singleton Merten Syndrome

Atrophy, Scapuloperoneal OMIM:183020 Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Segmental OMIM:253400 Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type III; SMA3 OMIM:253550 Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type II; [informatics.jax.org]

Spinal muscular atrophy 1 Spinal muscular atrophy Ryukyuan type Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 with congenital bone fractures Spinal muscular atrophy type 2 Spinal muscular [personalizedcause.com]

Absent speech Lower limb spasticity Muscular hypotonia of the trunk Developmental regression Skin rash Irritability Spastic paraplegia Abnormality of the cerebral white matter [mendelian.co]

Polymyositis

Kennedy disease or X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy is a rare X-linked recessive disorder with clinical features of slowly progressive atrophy and weakness of limb and [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

atrophy). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

MDA addresses the muscular dystrophies, spinal muscular atrophy, ALS, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, myasthenia gravis, Friedreich's ataxia, metabolic diseases of muscle, and [brainfacts.org]