Muscular Atrophy: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Muscular Atrophy

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]

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]

Distal muscular dystrophies are a group of inherited primary muscle disorders showing progressive weakness and atrophy preferentially in the hands, forearm, lower legs, or [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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]

The Repository also banks subjects with MNDs that have known genetic causes, including Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (Kennedy’s Disease) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy. [coriell.org]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 4

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]

muscular atrophy, is now commercially available. [luriechildrens.org]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Menu What is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)? [my.clevelandclinic.org]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2

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 Atrophy (SMA) Menu What is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)? [my.clevelandclinic.org]

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 Atrophy (SMA) Menu What is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)? [my.clevelandclinic.org]

Diabetic Amyotrophy

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

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

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

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]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 5

[…] 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]

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]

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]

Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

[…] 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]

atrophy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Spinal muscular atrophy. [patient.info]

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]

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]

Myopathy, Endocrine

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

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

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

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]

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]

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]

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]