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*[[Vitamin D deficiency]] | *[[Vitamin D deficiency]] | ||
The following diseases that cause muscle weakness may be differentiated from one another as follows: | |||
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|- style="background: #4479BA; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center;" | |||
! rowspan="2" |<small>Diseases</small> | |||
! colspan="8" |<small>History and Physical | |||
! colspan="2" |<small>Diagnostic tests</small> | |||
! rowspan="2" |<small>Other Findings</small> | |||
|- style="background: #4479BA; color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center;" | |||
!<small>Motor Deficit</small> | |||
!<small>Sensory deficit</small> | |||
!<small>Cranial nerve Involvement</small> | |||
!<small>Autonomic dysfunction</small> | |||
!<small>Proximal/Distal/Generalized</small> | |||
!<small>Ascending/Descending/Systemic</small> | |||
!<small>Unilateral (UL) | |||
or Bilateral (BL) | |||
or | |||
No Lateralization (NL)</small> | |||
!<small>Onset</small> | |||
!<small>Lab or Imaging Findings</small> | |||
!<small>Specific test</small> | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | Adult Botulism | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Descending | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Toxin test | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Blood, Wound, or Stool culture | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Diplopia]], [[Hyporeflexia|Hyporeflexia,]] [[Hypotonia]], possible respiratory paralysis | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |Infant Botulism | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Descending | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Toxin test | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Blood, Wound, or Stool culture | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Flaccid paralysis]] ([[Floppy baby syndrome]]), possible respiratory paralysis | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Guillian-Barre syndrome]]<ref name="pmid22081202">{{cite journal| author=Talukder RK, Sutradhar SR, Rahman KM, Uddin MJ, Akhter H| title=Guillian-Barre syndrome. | journal=Mymensingh Med J | year= 2011 | volume= 20 | issue= 4 | pages= 748-56 | pmid=22081202 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22081202 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Ascending | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |CSF: ↑Protein | |||
↓Cells | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Clinical & Lumbar Puncture | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Progressive [[ascending paralysis]] following infection, possible respiratory paralysis | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" | [[Eaton lambert syndrome|Eaton Lambert syndrome]]<ref name="pmid27412406">{{cite journal| author=Merino-Ramírez MÁ, Bolton CF| title=Review of the Diagnostic Challenges of Lambert-Eaton Syndrome Revealed Through Three Case Reports. | journal=Can J Neurol Sci | year= 2016 | volume= 43 | issue= 5 | pages= 635-47 | pmid=27412406 | doi=10.1017/cjn.2016.268 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=27412406 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Intermittent | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | [[EMG]], repetitive nerve stimulation test (RNS) | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Voltage gated calcium channel|Voltage gated calcium channe]]<nowiki/>l<nowiki/> (VGCC) antibody | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Diplopia]], [[ptosis]], improves with movement (as the day progresses) | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Myasthenia gravis]]<ref name="pmid28029925">{{cite journal| author=Gilhus NE| title=Myasthenia Gravis. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2016 | volume= 375 | issue= 26 | pages= 2570-2581 | pmid=28029925 | doi=10.1056/NEJMra1602678 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=28029925 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Intermittent | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | [[Electromyography|EMG]], [[Edrophonium|Edrophonium test]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Acetylcholine receptor|Ach receptor]] antibody | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Diplopia]], [[ptosis]], worsening with movement (as the day progresses) | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Electrolyte disturbance]]<ref name="pmid26813501">{{cite journal| author=Ozono K| title=[Diagnostic criteria for vitamin D-deficient rickets and hypocalcemia-]. | journal=Clin Calcium | year= 2016 | volume= 26 | issue= 2 | pages= 215-22 | pmid=26813501 | doi=CliCa1602215222 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=26813501 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Electrolyte panel | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |↓Ca++, ↓Mg++, ↓K+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Possible [[arrhythmia]] | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Organophosphate poisoning|Organophosphate toxicity]]<ref name="pmid15020723">{{cite journal| author=Kamanyire R, Karalliedde L| title=Organophosphate toxicity and occupational exposure. | journal=Occup Med (Lond) | year= 2004 | volume= 54 | issue= 2 | pages= 69-75 | pmid=15020723 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=15020723 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Ascending | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Clinical diagnosis: physical exam & history | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Clinical suspicion confirmed with RBC AchE activity | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |History of exposure to i[[Insecticide|nsecticide]] or living in farming environment. with : [[Diarrhea]], [[Urination]], [[Miosis]], [[Bradycardia]], [[Lacrimation]], [[Emesis]], [[Salivation]], [[Sweating]] | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Tick paralysis]] ([[Dermacentor andersoni|Dermacentor tick]])<ref name="pmid23677663">{{cite journal| author=Pecina CA| title=Tick paralysis. | journal=Semin Neurol | year= 2012 | volume= 32 | issue= 5 | pages= 531-2 | pmid=23677663 | doi=10.1055/s-0033-1334474 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=23677663 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Ascending | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Clinical diagnosis: physical exam & history | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |History of outdoor activity in Northeastern United States. The tick is often still latched to the patient at presentation (often in head and neck area) | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Tetrodotoxin]] poisoning<ref name="pmid24566728">{{cite journal| author=Bane V, Lehane M, Dikshit M, O'Riordan A, Furey A| title=Tetrodotoxin: chemistry, toxicity, source, distribution and detection. | journal=Toxins (Basel) | year= 2014 | volume= 6 | issue= 2 | pages= 693-755 | pmid=24566728 | doi=10.3390/toxins6020693 | pmc=3942760 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=24566728 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Clinical diagnosis: physical exam & dietary history | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | History of consumption of puffer fish species. | |||
|- | |||
| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Stroke]]<ref name="pmid8848683">{{cite journal| author=Kuntzer T, Hirt L, Bogousslavsky J| title=[Neuromuscular involvement and cerebrovascular accidents]. | journal=Rev Med Suisse Romande | year= 1996 | volume= 116 | issue= 8 | pages= 605-9 | pmid=8848683 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=8848683 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | +/- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | +/- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | +/- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+/-</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |UL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | MRI +ve for ischemia or hemorrhage | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |MRI | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden unilateral motor and sensory deficit in a patient with a history of [[Atherosclerosis|atherosclero]]<nowiki/>tic risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, smoking) or [[Atrial fibrillation|atrial fibrillation.]] | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align:center;" | [[Poliomyelitis]]<ref name="pmid19944665">{{cite journal| author=Laffont I, Julia M, Tiffreau V, Yelnik A, Herisson C, Pelissier J| title=Aging and sequelae of poliomyelitis. | journal=Ann Phys Rehabil Med | year= 2010 | volume= 53 | issue= 1 | pages= 24-33 | pmid=19944665 | doi=10.1016/j.rehab.2009.10.002 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19944665 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+/- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Proximal > Distal | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL or UL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |PCR of CSF | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Asymmetric paralysis following a flu-like syndrome. | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align:center;" | [[Transverse myelitis]]<ref name="pmid24099672">{{cite journal| author=West TW| title=Transverse myelitis--a review of the presentation, diagnosis, and initial management. | journal=Discov Med | year= 2013 | volume= 16 | issue= 88 | pages= 167-77 | pmid=24099672 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=24099672 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+ | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>+</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Proximal > Distal | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL or UL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |MRI & [[Lumbar puncture]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |MRI | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |History of chronic viral or autoimmune disease (e.g. [[HIV]]) | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Neurosyphilis]]<ref name="pmid22482824">{{cite journal| author=Liu LL, Zheng WH, Tong ML, Liu GL, Zhang HL, Fu ZG et al.| title=Ischemic stroke as a primary symptom of neurosyphilis among HIV-negative emergency patients. | journal=J Neurol Sci | year= 2012 | volume= 317 | issue= 1-2 | pages= 35-9 | pmid=22482824 | doi=10.1016/j.jns.2012.03.003 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22482824 }} </ref><ref name="pmid24365430">{{cite journal |vauthors=Berger JR, Dean D |title=Neurosyphilis |journal=Handb Clin Neurol |volume=121 |issue= |pages=1461–72 |year=2014 |pmid=24365430 |doi=10.1016/B978-0-7020-4088-7.00098-5 |url=}}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | + | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | - | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |+/- | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious<nowiki/> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |MRI & [[Lumbar puncture]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |CSF [[VDRL]]-specifc | |||
CSF [[FTA-ABS|FTA-Ab]] -sensitive<ref name="pmid22421697">{{cite journal| author=Ho EL, Marra CM| title=Treponemal tests for neurosyphilis--less accurate than what we thought? | journal=Sex Transm Dis | year= 2012 | volume= 39 | issue= 4 | pages= 298-9 | pmid=22421697 | doi=10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31824ee574 | pmc=3746559 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=22421697 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |History of unprotected sex or multiple sexual partners. | |||
History of [[genital ulcer]] ([[chancre]]), diffuse [[Maculopapular rash|maculopapular ras]]<nowiki/>h. | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align:center;" |[[Muscular dystrophy]]<ref name="pmid26457695">{{cite journal| author=Falzarano MS, Scotton C, Passarelli C, Ferlini A| title=Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: From Diagnosis to Therapy. | journal=Molecules | year= 2015 | volume= 20 | issue= 10 | pages= 18168-84 | pmid=26457695 | doi=10.3390/molecules201018168 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=26457695 }}</ref> | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Proximal > Distal | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Genetic testing | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Muscle biopsy]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Progressive proximal lower limb weakness with calf pseudohypertrophy in early childhood. [[Gowers' sign|Gower sign]] positive. | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align: center;" |[[Multiple sclerosis]] exacerbation<ref name="pmid27432676">{{cite journal| author=Filippi M, Preziosa P, Rocca MA| title=Multiple sclerosis. | journal=Handb Clin Neurol | year= 2016 | volume= 135 | issue= | pages= 399-423 | pmid=27432676 | doi=10.1016/B978-0-444-53485-9.00020-9 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=27432676 }}</ref> | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |NL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Sudden | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |'''[[CSF|↑]]'''[[CSF]] [[IgG]] levels | |||
(monoclonal) | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Clinical assessment and [[MRI]] <ref name="pmid8274111">{{cite journal| author=Giang DW, Grow VM, Mooney C, Mushlin AI, Goodman AD, Mattson DH et al.| title=Clinical diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The impact of magnetic resonance imaging and ancillary testing. Rochester-Toronto Magnetic Resonance Study Group. | journal=Arch Neurol | year= 1994 | volume= 51 | issue= 1 | pages= 61-6 | pmid=8274111 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=8274111 }}</ref> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Blurred vision|Blurry vision]], [[urinary incontinence]], [[fatigue]] | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]]<ref name="pmid27025851">{{cite journal| author=Riva N, Agosta F, Lunetta C, Filippi M, Quattrini A| title=Recent advances in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. | journal=J Neurol | year= 2016 | volume= 263 | issue= 6 | pages= 1241-54 | pmid=27025851 | doi=10.1007/s00415-016-8091-6 | pmc=4893385 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=27025851 }}</ref> | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Generalized | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" | Normal [[Lumbar puncture|LP]] (to rule out DDx) | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |MRI & [[Lumbar puncture|LP]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Patient initially presents with [[upper motor neuron]] deficit ([[spasticity]]) followed by [[lower motor neuron]] deficit ([[flaccidity]]). | |||
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| style="background: #DCDCDC; padding: 5px; text-align:center;" | [[Myositis|Inflammatory myopathy]]<ref name="pmid26290112">{{cite journal| author=Michelle EH, Mammen AL| title=Myositis Mimics. | journal=Curr Rheumatol Rep | year= 2015 | volume= 17 | issue= 10 | pages= 63 | pmid=26290112 | doi=10.1007/s11926-015-0541-0 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=26290112 }}</ref> | |||
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| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Systemic | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |UL or BL | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Insidious | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Elevated [[Creatine kinase|CK]] & [[Aldolase]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |[[Muscle biopsy]] | |||
| style="background: #F5F5F5; padding: 5px; text-align:center" |Progressive proximal muscle weakness in 3rd to 5th decade of life. With or without skin manifestations. | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Vishnu Vardhan Serla M.B.B.S. [2]
Differentiaing Muscle Weakness from other Diseases
Acute/Sub Acute
- Acute peripheral neuropathy
- Corticosteroids
- Coxsackie
- Dermatomyositis
- Herpes zoster
- HIV
- Hypercalcemia
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hypophosphatemia
- Influenza
- Liver Disease
- Organophosphates
- Poliomyelitis
- Polymyositis
- Rabies
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Uremia
Chronic Muscle Weakness
- Acromegaly
- Adrenocorticol insufficiency
- Alcoholic myopathy
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Chronic infection
- Chronic peripheral neuropathy
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Depression
- Dermatomyositis
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Drugs/toxins
- Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
- Eaton-Lambert syndrome
- Facioscapulohumeral
- Glycogen Storage Disease
- Hypercalcemia
- Hyperkalemia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hypophosphatemia
- Hypothyroidism
- Inflammatory myopathy
- Lipid storage disease
- Liver Disease
- Lupus erythematosus
- Malignant tumor
- Malnutrition
- Mitochondrial myopathy
- Mitral Regurgitation
- Mitral Stenosis
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myotonic
- Oculopharyngeal
- Physical deconditioning
- Polymyositis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Somatization syndrome
- Steroid myopathy
- Uremia
- Vitamin D deficiency
The following diseases that cause muscle weakness may be differentiated from one another as follows:
| Diseases | History and Physical | Diagnostic tests | Other Findings | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Deficit | Sensory deficit | Cranial nerve Involvement | Autonomic dysfunction | Proximal/Distal/Generalized | Ascending/Descending/Systemic | Unilateral (UL)
or Bilateral (BL) or No Lateralization (NL) |
Onset | Lab or Imaging Findings | Specific test | ||
| Adult Botulism | + | - | + | + | Generalized | Descending | BL | Sudden | Toxin test | Blood, Wound, or Stool culture | Diplopia, Hyporeflexia, Hypotonia, possible respiratory paralysis |
| Infant Botulism | + | - | + | + | Generalized | Descending | BL | Sudden | Toxin test | Blood, Wound, or Stool culture | Flaccid paralysis (Floppy baby syndrome), possible respiratory paralysis |
| Guillian-Barre syndrome[1] | + | - | - | - | Generalized | Ascending | BL | Insidious | CSF: ↑Protein
↓Cells |
Clinical & Lumbar Puncture | Progressive ascending paralysis following infection, possible respiratory paralysis |
| Eaton Lambert syndrome[2] | + | - | + | + | Generalized | Systemic | BL | Intermittent | EMG, repetitive nerve stimulation test (RNS) | Voltage gated calcium channel (VGCC) antibody | Diplopia, ptosis, improves with movement (as the day progresses) |
| Myasthenia gravis[3] | + | - | + | + | Generalized | Systemic | BL | Intermittent | EMG, Edrophonium test | Ach receptor antibody | Diplopia, ptosis, worsening with movement (as the day progresses) |
| Electrolyte disturbance[4] | + | + | - | - | Generalized | Systemic | BL | Insidious | Electrolyte panel | ↓Ca++, ↓Mg++, ↓K+ | Possible arrhythmia |
| Organophosphate toxicity[5] | + | + | - | + | Generalized | Ascending | BL | Sudden | Clinical diagnosis: physical exam & history | Clinical suspicion confirmed with RBC AchE activity | History of exposure to insecticide or living in farming environment. with : Diarrhea, Urination, Miosis, Bradycardia, Lacrimation, Emesis, Salivation, Sweating |
| Tick paralysis (Dermacentor tick)[6] | + | - | - | - | Generalized | Ascending | BL | Insidious | Clinical diagnosis: physical exam & history | - | History of outdoor activity in Northeastern United States. The tick is often still latched to the patient at presentation (often in head and neck area) |
| Tetrodotoxin poisoning[7] | + | - | + | + | Generalized | Systemic | BL | Sudden | Clinical diagnosis: physical exam & dietary history | - | History of consumption of puffer fish species. |
| Stroke[8] | +/- | +/- | +/- | +/- | Generalized | Systemic | UL | Sudden | MRI +ve for ischemia or hemorrhage | MRI | Sudden unilateral motor and sensory deficit in a patient with a history of atherosclerotic risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, smoking) or atrial fibrillation. |
| Poliomyelitis[9] | + | + | + | +/- | Proximal > Distal | Systemic | BL or UL | Sudden | PCR of CSF | Asymmetric paralysis following a flu-like syndrome. | |
| Transverse myelitis[10] | + | + | + | + | Proximal > Distal | Systemic | BL or UL | Sudden | MRI & Lumbar puncture | MRI | History of chronic viral or autoimmune disease (e.g. HIV) |
| Neurosyphilis[11][12] | + | + | - | +/- | Generalized | Systemic | BL | Insidious | MRI & Lumbar puncture | CSF VDRL-specifc | History of unprotected sex or multiple sexual partners.
History of genital ulcer (chancre), diffuse maculopapular rash. |
| Muscular dystrophy[14] | + | - | - | - | Proximal > Distal | Systemic | BL | Insidious | Genetic testing | Muscle biopsy | Progressive proximal lower limb weakness with calf pseudohypertrophy in early childhood. Gower sign positive. |
| Multiple sclerosis exacerbation[15] | + | + | + | + | Generalized | Systemic | NL | Sudden | ↑CSF IgG levels
(monoclonal) |
Clinical assessment and MRI [16] | Blurry vision, urinary incontinence, fatigue |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis[17] | + | - | - | - | Generalized | Systemic | BL | Insidious | Normal LP (to rule out DDx) | MRI & LP | Patient initially presents with upper motor neuron deficit (spasticity) followed by lower motor neuron deficit (flaccidity). |
| Inflammatory myopathy[18] | + | - | - | - | Proximal > Distal | Systemic | UL or BL | Insidious | Elevated CK & Aldolase | Muscle biopsy | Progressive proximal muscle weakness in 3rd to 5th decade of life. With or without skin manifestations. |
References
- ↑ Talukder RK, Sutradhar SR, Rahman KM, Uddin MJ, Akhter H (2011). "Guillian-Barre syndrome". Mymensingh Med J. 20 (4): 748–56. PMID 22081202.
- ↑ Merino-Ramírez MÁ, Bolton CF (2016). "Review of the Diagnostic Challenges of Lambert-Eaton Syndrome Revealed Through Three Case Reports". Can J Neurol Sci. 43 (5): 635–47. doi:10.1017/cjn.2016.268. PMID 27412406.
- ↑ Gilhus NE (2016). "Myasthenia Gravis". N Engl J Med. 375 (26): 2570–2581. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1602678. PMID 28029925.
- ↑ Ozono K (2016). "[Diagnostic criteria for vitamin D-deficient rickets and hypocalcemia-]". Clin Calcium. 26 (2): 215–22. doi:CliCa1602215222 Check
|doi=value (help). PMID 26813501. - ↑ Kamanyire R, Karalliedde L (2004). "Organophosphate toxicity and occupational exposure". Occup Med (Lond). 54 (2): 69–75. PMID 15020723.
- ↑ Pecina CA (2012). "Tick paralysis". Semin Neurol. 32 (5): 531–2. doi:10.1055/s-0033-1334474. PMID 23677663.
- ↑ Bane V, Lehane M, Dikshit M, O'Riordan A, Furey A (2014). "Tetrodotoxin: chemistry, toxicity, source, distribution and detection". Toxins (Basel). 6 (2): 693–755. doi:10.3390/toxins6020693. PMC 3942760. PMID 24566728.
- ↑ Kuntzer T, Hirt L, Bogousslavsky J (1996). "[Neuromuscular involvement and cerebrovascular accidents]". Rev Med Suisse Romande. 116 (8): 605–9. PMID 8848683.
- ↑ Laffont I, Julia M, Tiffreau V, Yelnik A, Herisson C, Pelissier J (2010). "Aging and sequelae of poliomyelitis". Ann Phys Rehabil Med. 53 (1): 24–33. doi:10.1016/j.rehab.2009.10.002. PMID 19944665.
- ↑ West TW (2013). "Transverse myelitis--a review of the presentation, diagnosis, and initial management". Discov Med. 16 (88): 167–77. PMID 24099672.
- ↑ Liu LL, Zheng WH, Tong ML, Liu GL, Zhang HL, Fu ZG; et al. (2012). "Ischemic stroke as a primary symptom of neurosyphilis among HIV-negative emergency patients". J Neurol Sci. 317 (1–2): 35–9. doi:10.1016/j.jns.2012.03.003. PMID 22482824.
- ↑ Berger JR, Dean D (2014). "Neurosyphilis". Handb Clin Neurol. 121: 1461–72. doi:10.1016/B978-0-7020-4088-7.00098-5. PMID 24365430.
- ↑ Ho EL, Marra CM (2012). "Treponemal tests for neurosyphilis--less accurate than what we thought?". Sex Transm Dis. 39 (4): 298–9. doi:10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31824ee574. PMC 3746559. PMID 22421697.
- ↑ Falzarano MS, Scotton C, Passarelli C, Ferlini A (2015). "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: From Diagnosis to Therapy". Molecules. 20 (10): 18168–84. doi:10.3390/molecules201018168. PMID 26457695.
- ↑ Filippi M, Preziosa P, Rocca MA (2016). "Multiple sclerosis". Handb Clin Neurol. 135: 399–423. doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-53485-9.00020-9. PMID 27432676.
- ↑ Giang DW, Grow VM, Mooney C, Mushlin AI, Goodman AD, Mattson DH; et al. (1994). "Clinical diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The impact of magnetic resonance imaging and ancillary testing. Rochester-Toronto Magnetic Resonance Study Group". Arch Neurol. 51 (1): 61–6. PMID 8274111.
- ↑ Riva N, Agosta F, Lunetta C, Filippi M, Quattrini A (2016). "Recent advances in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". J Neurol. 263 (6): 1241–54. doi:10.1007/s00415-016-8091-6. PMC 4893385. PMID 27025851.
- ↑ Michelle EH, Mammen AL (2015). "Myositis Mimics". Curr Rheumatol Rep. 17 (10): 63. doi:10.1007/s11926-015-0541-0. PMID 26290112.