Other clinical features include early frontal alopecia, cataracts, blepharitis, conjunctivitis, and testicular atrophy. Mental retardation may occur. Dystrophic cardiac disease occurs late. [78stepshealth.us]

Duchenne in 1855 first described a progressive muscular atrophy of childhood and was termed “hypertrophic paraplegia of infancy”. [slideplayer.com]

Because muscles and nerves (neurons) supplying muscle operate as a functional unit, disease of both systems results in muscular atrophy (wasting) and paralysis. [britannica.com]

Spinal muscular atrophy. Congenital hypomyelinating neuropathies. It may be difficult to distinguish myopathy from peripheral neuropathy. [patient.info]

In these cases it is necessary to differentiate TM not only with muscular dystrophy (oculopharengeal (oculopharyngeal) form) but as well with proximal spinal muscular atrophy (PSMA) [13]. [scirp.org]

atrophy Endocrine myopathy: Cushing’s syndrome Hyper or hypo- thyroidism Hyper- or hypo- parathyroidism Drug induced myopathy : True myositis: Penicillamine, Procainamide Zidovudine (a form of mitochondrial myopathy) Glucocorticoids Statins: Lovastatin [learningneurology.com]

Parathyroid dysfunction Hypoparathyroidism causes tetany, with or without carpopedal spasm. [forums.prohealth.com]

Parathyroid dysfunction Hypoparathyroidism : Tetany with or without carpopedal spasm is seen. Muscle pain, cramps, and spasms are present in up to one half of patients. Muscle weakness is usually mild. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Severe hypocalcemia may present with carpopedal spasm, laryngospasm, tetany, and seizures. [revespcardiol.org]

Deformities 510 Case 81 A Woman with Droopy Eyelids and Ophthalmoplegia 515 Case 82 A Man with Weakness and Swelling in the Neck 522 Case 83 A Woman with Muscle Pains and Dark Urine 526 Case 84 A Woman with Progressive Proximal Muscle Weakness 533 Case [books.google.com]

Case 58A A Woman with Leg Numbness Pain Weakness and Slow Nerve Conduction Velocities 372 Case 58B A Boy with Leg Weakness 375 Case 59 A Man with Hand Weakness and Numbness After Skiing 383 Case 60 A Man with Recurrent Foot Drop 386 Case 61 An Elderly [books.google.com]

Toxoplasma gondii has been proved to cause myositis in an occasional patient. A recent case report of a patient with polymyositis and cerebellar ataxia is an example of this problem. [78stepshealth.us]

Electrocardiographic abnormalities, such as a prolonged PR interval, slurred QRS complex, ST-segment depression or elevation, and usually right bundle-branch block, are seen late in the disease. [78stepshealth.us]