Differential Diagnosis for Muscle weakness
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Decreased muscle strength, Muscle strength reduced, Muscle weakness (finding), Muscle Weaknesses, Muscular Weakness, Muscular Weaknesses, Weakness muscle, Weakness muscle(s), Weakness muscular, Weaknesses Muscle, Weaknesses Muscular
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Iatrogenic, Self Induced Disorders
Surgical, Procedure Complication
Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent)
- Hepatitis, viral
- Immune deficiency , acquired (AIDS/HIV)
- CFS/Fibromyalgia/Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Diphtheria
- Encephalitis, Eastern equine
- Tuberculosis, disseminated
- Brucellosis
- Post-Poliomyelitis syndrome
- Eosinophilia-polymyalgia syndrome
- General paresis/CNS syphilis dementia
- Hepatic brucellosis
- Poliomyelitis, paralytic, spinal
- Syphilis, meningovascular
- Syphilitic spastic paraplegia (Erb)
- Tuberculosis, miliary hepatic
- Whipples disease
- Poliomyelitis, paralytic, bulbar
- Poliomyelitis, acute
- HIV/AIDS Myopathy
- Viral Myopathy
Infected organ, Abscesses
Granulomatous, Inflammatory Disorders
Neoplastic Disorders
Allergic, Collagen, Auto-Immune Disorders
- Collagen-vascular disease
- Collagen disease
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Serum sickness
- Ankylosing spondylitis (Marie-Strumple)
- Chorea, Sydenham's acute
- Collagenosis, unclassified
- Connective tissue disorders vasculitis
- Dermatomyositis
- Dermatomyositis/childhood type
- Eaton-Lambert syndrome
- Lupus erythematosis, systemic
- Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)/Undifferentiated
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Polymyositis
- Scleroderma, progressive systemic
- Brachial neuritis (Parsonage Turner)
- Tubulointerstitial nephritis-Uveitis
- Isaacs potassium channel myopathy syndrome
Metabolic, Storage Disorders
- Diabetic amyotrophy syndrome
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Metabolic disorders
- Fanconi's Hereditary Renal Disease
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Xanthinuria
- Cytochrome C Oxidase Deficiency/COX Complex Defect
- French-Canadian type COX mitochondrial defect
- Infantile mitochondrial myopathy/Cox defect
- Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase/short chain def
- Carnitine deficiency syndrome
- Fucosidosis (Anderson-Fabry)
- Glycogen storage diseases
- Glycogen storage muscle disease/Pompe
- McArdle's syndrome
- Neutral lipid storage disease
- Niemann-Pick disease
- Sandhoff disease
- Von Gierke's disease/glycogenosis I
- Barth Syndrome/3 MethylGlutoconic aciduria/MGA II
- Lysosome Storage Disease
- Myoadenylate deaminase deficiency
Biochemical Disorders
Deficiency Disorders
Congenital, Developmental Disorders
Hereditary, Familial, Genetic Disorders
- Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis
- Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
- Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy/Pseudohypertrophic
- Erb's Muscular Dystrophy/Limb Girdle MD
- Muscular dystrophy
- Muscular dystrophy, limb girdle type
- Muscular dystrophy, progressive
- Spinal muscle atrophy
- Spinal muscle atrophy, infantile
- Juberg Marsidi Genetic syndrome (unco)
- Juvenile spinal muscle atrophy (Kugelberg-Welander)
- Kennedy Muscular atrophy disease
- Marinesco Sjogren syndrome
- Mitochondrial myopathy/MERRF
- Gittleman's syndrome
- MELAS Encephalopathy
- Bartter's syndrome
- Central core disease
- Distal muscular dystrophy (Gowers)
- Encephalomyelopathy/necro/subact/Leigh
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- Kearns-Sayre Ophthalmoplegic Syndrome
- Muscular atrophy, infantile, spinal
- Nemaline myopathy
- Nephritis, familial interstitial
- Schwartz-Jampel syndrome
- Spinal muscle atrophy/adult type IV
- Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy/Limb Girdle type
- Familial Vitamin D dependent Rickets
- Myopathy, Desmin Storage type/Sarcoplasmin bodies
- Myopathy, Myotubular/Centronuclear
Usage, Degenerative, Necrosis, Age Related Disorders
Relational, Mental, Psychiatric Disorders
Anatomic, Foreign Body, Structural Disorders
Functional, Physiologic Variant Disorders
Vegetative, Autonomic, Endocrine Disorders
- Endocrine gland disorder
- Hyperthyroidism (Graves disease)
- Hypothyroidism (myxedema)
- Addison's disease (chronic adrenal ins)
- Myasthenic crisis
- Autoimmune adrenal insufficiency
- Hyperaldosteronism, primary
- Hyperparathyroidism, primary
- Acromegaly (Gigantism)
- Cushing's disease/Syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myasthenic syndrome (Pseudomyasthenia)
- Panhypopituitarism
- Adrenocorticoid Deficiency
Reference to Organ System
- Anemia
- Hepatic failure
- Renal Failure Acute
- Anemia, severe
- Motor peripheral neuropathy
- Motor neuron disease
- Renal Failure Chronic
- Salt wasting nephropathy
- Pernicious anemia
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rhabdomyolysis, exertional, acute
- Combined system disease/pernicious an.
- Myopathy/secondary/nonspecific
- Myositis ossificans progressiva
Pathophysiologic
Heirarchical Major Groups
Drugs
- Depolarizing neuromuscular blocker adm
- Diuretic drug Administration/Toxicity/effect
- Neuromuscular blocker Administration/Toxicity
- Non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocker
- Organic arsenicals Administration/Toxicity
- Corticosteroid Administration/Toxicity
- Digitalis toxicity/poisoning
- Curare Administration/Toxicity
- Digitalis preparations Administration/Toxicity
- Digitoxin (Crystodigin) Administration/Toxicity
- Licorice excess/ingestion
- American hellebore herbal/intake
- Selenium supplement/intake
- Cushings secondary/drug-induced syndr.
- Hypervitaminosis D
- Milk-alkali syndrome
- Steroid myopathy
- Drug induced Myopathy
- Rhubarb herbal/intake
- Statin Myopathy
Poisoning (Specific Agent)
- Horse chestnut herbal/intake
- Oleander/leaf plant/intake
- Cardiac glycosides/toxicity/poisoning
- Cherry pits plant/ingestion
- Chlordane exposure/poisoning
- Cholinergic crisis toxidrome
- Copperhead snakebite
- Corn-cockle plant/intake
- Coyotillo (Karwinskia) plant/intake
- Cyanogenic glycoside/plant pits poison
- Daphne flower herbal/toxicity
- Insecticide/organophosphate type
- Pit viper snakebite
- Selenium ingestion/toxicity
- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria) intake
- Fool's parsley plant/intake
- Foxglove plant herbal/intake
- Hellebore/White/False ingestion
- Lead poisoning in children
- Lobelia/Indian tobacco herbal/intake
- Meadow Saffron plant/intake
- Piperonyl butoxide/Pyrethin (RID) cream
- Rhubarb leaf plant/poisoning
- Sodium thiocyanate poisoning
- White snakeroot (eupatorium)/intake
- Alcohol myopathy
- Alcohol polyneuritis
- Pokeweed (Phytolacca a.) plant/intake
- Yellow jessamine/Jasmine poisoning
- Acid ingestion
- Aldrin poisoning
- Arsine gas (Hydrogen arsenide) poisoning
- Australian black snakebite
- Benzene poisoning
- Botulinum toxin/deliberate exposure
- Botulism
- Botulism, infant
- Cadmium fumes/inhalation/toxicity
- Death camas (Zigadenus) poisoning.
- Dieldrin (Octalox/Cmpd 497) poisoning
- Endrin poisoning
- Gila-monster bite/poisoning
- Heavy metals ingestion/poisoning
- Hemlock (coniine/cicutoxin) poisoning
- Insecticide/pesticide poisoning
- Lily of the valley herbal/intake
- Methanol ingestion/poisoning
- Methemoglobin inducing/poisons
- Mushroom/Galerina (Cortinarius) toxin
- Nerve gas exposure
- Parathion/Insecticide poisoning
- Petroleum distillates/Naphtha poisoning
- Phenols/carbolic acid ingestion
- Sea snake bite
- Stibine/Hydrogen Antimony poisoning
- Tick paralysis
- Yew/Yew berry plant poisoning
- African Passion flower (Adenia) toxic
- Lead poisoning
- DDT/application/exposure toxicity
- Arsenic poisoning/Acute ingestion
- Barium salt poisoning
- Cadmium ingestion
- Carbon disulfide inhalant/poisoning
- Stingray poisoning
- Arsenic, chronic poisoning
- Polyneuropathy, arsenical
- Selenious acid/gun bluing ingestion
- Vacor/PNU Rat poison
Organ Poisoning (Intoxication)
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