Muscular Fasciculation: Causes & Reasons

Possible Causes for Muscular Fasciculation

UMLS symptoms related to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 5: muscular fasciculation, muscle spasticity, abnormal pyramidal signs, upper motor neuron signs MGI Mouse Phenotypes [malacards.org]

Family history was negative but the clinical features such as slowly progressive muscular weakness and wasting, fasciculation and neurogenic changes on electromyography were [neurologyindia.com]

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

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3

Kugelberg-Welander disease - slowly progressive proximal muscular weakness with fasciculation and wasting. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

[…] dystrophy where DTR are present fasciculations present Imaging Radiographs scoliosis series pelvis Evaluation Diagnosis based on DNA analysis muscle biopsy prenatal diagnosis [orthobullets.com]

Signs of motor neuron disease such as muscle weakness, muscle atrophy, fasciculations, and reduced or absent deep tendon reflexes can be seen. [medlink.com]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 4

Affiliated tissues include spinal cord, testes and brain, and related phenotypes are tongue fasciculations and spinal muscular atrophy Disease Ontology : 12 A survival motor [malacards.org]

Type I spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffmann disease) is present in utero and becomes symptomatic by about age 6 months. [msdmanuals.com]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 7

Family history was negative but the clinical features such as slowly progressive muscular weakness and wasting, fasciculation and neurogenic changes on electromyography were [neurologyindia.com]

Dysphagia, tremors, and rigidity were absent; muscular atrophy, fasciculation, and Hoffmann sign were not documented. [bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com]

[…] age of symptom onset (older than age 40), diffuse, often marked fasciculations, and involvement of bulbar as well as spinal musculature. [bcmj.org]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2

The main manifestations consisted of musle weakness,muscular atrophy with various degree fasciculations,but without evidence of long tract or peripheral nerve involvement.The [dict.cnki.net]

Signs of motor neuron disease such as muscle weakness, muscle atrophy, fasciculations, and reduced or absent deep tendon reflexes can be seen. [medlink.com]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Extremities: Occasional tremors of fingers and muscular fasciculation may be observed in chronic infantile forms of SMA. [symptoma.com]

The main manifestations consisted of musle weakness,muscular atrophy with various degree fasciculations,but without evidence of long tract or peripheral nerve involvement.The [dict.cnki.net]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

[…] atrophy weakness clinical fasciculations clumsiness Evaluation Diagnosis dependent on demonstration of both UMN and LMN involvement combination of UMN and LMN in the same [orthobullets.com]

Diseases that may mimic ALS include: Multifocal motor neuropathy, cervical myelopathy with radiculopathy, benign fasciculation syndrome, post-polio syndrome, spinobulbar muscular [med.unc.edu]

Another probable sign is the occurrence of fasciculations after mechanical or thermal stimulation of a muscle. [flexikon.doccheck.com]

Multifocal Motor Neuropathy

In the first patient the symptoms were slowly progressive with bulbar muscle impairment, generalized weakness, muscular atrophy with cramps and fasciculations. [moh-it.pure.elsevier.com]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 3

Family history was negative but the clinical features such as slowly progressive muscular weakness and wasting, fasciculation and neurogenic changes on electromyography were [neurologyindia.com]

Fasciculations and muscle cramps also occur in benign conditions. [ninds.nih.gov]

In whatever part of the body muscular wasting begins, in most patients with ALS, it spreads to the other parts of the body and sooner or later becomes generalized. [neurologyindia.com]

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]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 9

[…] muscle weakness,[14] frontal-temporal dementia,[15] weight loss[16] and cardiovascular consequences.[17] Clinical characteristics of our case include the progression of muscular [nnjournal.net]

Fasciculations and muscle cramps also occur in benign conditions. [ninds.nih.gov]

[…] as first symptoms, which are vital to help for early diagnosis, and understand the natural course the disease progression.[13] Atypical presentations include cramps and fasciculations [nnjournal.net]

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1

Muscle cramps, facial fasciculations, hand tremor. Associated with type 2 diabetes and infertility. [patient.info]

Differential diagnosis Motor neurone disease Primary lateral sclerosis Muscular dystrophy Congenital myopathies Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism (glycogen storage diseases [patient.info]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 6

Fasciculations and muscle cramps also occur in benign conditions. [ninds.nih.gov]

Neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, multifocal motor neuropathy, and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy’s disease) also can mimic [ninds.nih.gov]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 8

Pineal Gland Cyst

July 01, 1991 ; 41 (7) Articles M. R. Fetell, J. N. Bruce, A. M. Burke, D. T. Cross, R.A.A. Torres, J. M. Powers, B. M. Stein First published July 1, 1991, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.41.7.1034 Abstract We identified 53 patients with non-neoplastic cysts of the pineal gland. In contrast to patients with pineal neoplasms, pineal[…] [n.neurology.org]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Abstract Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a persistent and debilitating disorder marked by cognitive and sensory dysfunction and unexplained physical fatigue. Classically, cases present after a prodrome consistent with infection; however, some cases are atypical and have a different[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Meningitis

Meningitis is a condition that causes inflammation and swelling in the lining of the brain and spinal cord. This swelling from meningitis can harm or destroy nerve cells and cause bleeding in the brain. The causes of spinal meningitis are most often a bacterial or viral infection. Most often, the body's immune system is[…] [meningitis.emedtv.com]

Paraneoplastic Syndrome

Question: When should an ophthalmologist consider the diagnosis of a paraneoplastic syndrome? 2 Question with answers: When should an ophthalmologist consider the diagnosis of a paraneoplastic syndrome? “In terms of afferent symptoms, an unexplained, painless, progressive vision loss is typical. With retinal[…] [neuro-ophthalmology.stanford.edu]

Guam Disease

The symptoms of lower motor neuron disease are muscular weakness, atrophy, fasciculation, cramps, slurred speech (dysarthria), difficulties in swallowing (dysphagia) and difficulties [alzheimer-europe.org]

Fabry Disease

Fabry disease, also known as Anderson-Fabry disease, angiokeratoma corporis diffusum and alpha-galactosidase A deficiency, is a rare genetic lysosomal storage disorder. Some cases show no significant clinical manifestations. In other cases, the clinical manifestations of Fabrys disease appear early in life. With age,[…] [symptoma.com]

Arachnoiditis

A case report of a patient with adhesive arachnoiditis after combined spinal and epidural anesthesia. To report an extremely rare case of paraplegia due to adhesive arachnoiditis with extensive syringomyelia (ES) and a giant anterior arachnoid spinal cyst (AASC) after spinal and epidural anesthesia for obstetric[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Bacterial Meningitis

Mondini dysplasia is rare, but has an important association with recurrent bacterial meningitis. We herein describe the case of a 3-year-old girl with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss who presented with three independent episodes of bacterial meningitis within 8 months. Temporal bone computed tomography indicated[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hypoparathyroidism

[…] noun mass noun Medicine Diminished concentration of parathyroid hormone in the blood, which causes deficiencies of calcium and phosphorus compounds in the blood and results in muscular spasms. ‘Risks of parathyroid surgery include permanent hypoparathyroidism and damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.’[…] [en.oxforddictionaries.com]

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

News A urine test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease may be possible Contact the Press Office MRC Talks podcast Network magazine Insight blog Back to listing 3 Oct 2016 Researchers at the MRC Prion Unit at UCL have found that it may be possible to determine whether or not a person has sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob[…] [mrc.ukri.org]

Rabies

Rabies is a contagious and dangerous disease and is usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. There are three stages of rabies: the prodromal phase, the furious phase and the paralytic phase. Animals in each phase display unique symptoms that can help you determine whether or not your pet has[…] [cuteness.com]

Tabun Poisoning

Percutaneous absorption of nerve agent typically results in localized sweating caused by direct nicotinic effect on the skin, followed by muscular fasciculations and weakness [emedicine.medscape.com]

Profuse sweating (diaphoresis) and muscular twitching (fasciculations) at the site of contact, nausea, vomiting (emesis), diarrhea, and weakness (malaise). [cdc.gov]

[…] twitching; fasciculations; cramps; generalized weakness, including muscles of respiration, with dyspnoea and cyanosis Principles of medical management Remove the victim from [emro.who.int]

Myoclonus-Dystonia Syndrome 11

Summary Epidemiology The estimated prevalence of MDS in Europe is 1/500,000. Clinical description Disease onset usually occurs in the first or second decade of life. Myoclonus is usually the presenting manifestation and is described as swift ''lightning-like'' jerks that can rarely appear at rest but that are usually[…] [orpha.net]

Cramp-Fasciculations Syndrome

Estimation of the frequency of the muscular pain-fasciculation syndrome and the muscular cramp-fasciculation syndrome in the adult population. [scielo.cl]

Fascicular muscular twitichings in myotrophic lateral sclerosis: their origin. [scielo.cl]

Fibrillation and fasciculation in voluntary muscle. Brain 1938; 61: 311-2. [ Links ] 25 Edsall DL. [scielo.cl]

Spinocerebellar Atrophy

Clinical features include progressive ataxia, DYSARTHRIA, postural instability, nystagmus, eyelid retraction, and facial FASCICULATIONS. [hon.ch]

Type II features ataxia and ocular signs; Type III features MUSCULAR ATROPHY and a sensorimotor neuropathy; and Type IV features extrapyramidal signs combined with a sensorimotor [hon.ch]

Soman Poisoning

[…] twitching; fasciculations; cramps; generalized weakness, including muscles of respiration, with dyspnoea and cyanosis Principles of medical management Remove the victim from [emro.who.int]

[…] salivation Increased/excessive lacrimation Bradycardia Slight miosis, occasionally unequal Blurring of vision Frequency; involuntary urination Easy fatigue; mild weakness; muscular [emro.who.int]