Muscle atrophy
Muscle atrophy: Introduction
Muscle atrophy: Decrease in size and bulk of muscle.
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Causes of Muscle atrophy:
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Diagnostic tests for Muscle atrophy:
Various tests are used in the diagnosis of Muscle atrophy. Some of these are listed below :
- Physical examination
- Measure body mass index (BMI) - i.e. weight in kg/(height in metres) squared. Anorexia nervosa is less than 17.5 and may feature muscle wasting.
- Shake hands with person. If the person is unable to relax their handgrip this suggests myotonia (an inability to relax muscles after voluntary contraction). The commonest cause of this is the muscle disease dystrophia myotonica
- General inspection of the entire body musculature with the person undressed. Compare one side with the other for wasting and try to work out which muscle groups are involved (proximal, distal or generalized, symmetrical or asymmetrical)
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Medications or substances causing Muscle atrophy:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Muscle atrophy as a symptom.
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Muscle atrophy: Comorbid Symptoms
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Muscle atrophy
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Diagnosis Checklist: Questions your doctor may ask (and why!)
During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in their assessment of Muscle atrophy.
Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing
your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information
you can share with your doctor about your symptoms may help them with their diagnosis.
Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:
- How long have you had the muscle atrophy (wasting away of the muscle)?
Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
- Is the muscle wasting localized to a certain area (focal) or generalized (diffuse)?
Why: Focal muscular atrophy would suggest poliomyelitis, early spinal muscular atrophy, peripheral vascular disease, sympathetic dystrophy, early spinal cord tumor, herniated disc, peroneal muscular atrophy, entrapment syndrome of one of the peripheral nerves, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis or syringomyelia.
- Has there been a significant period of inactivity, immobilization or bed rest?
Why: may be an explanation for the muscle wasting.
- History of trauma or injury to involved area?
Why: muscle or nerve injury may cause muscle wasting.
- Recent viral infection?
Why: may suggest Guillain- Barre syndrome.
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Diagnosis Checklist: Associated symptoms your doctor may ask about (and why!)
Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse
your condition.
The symptoms your doctor may ask about (in association with Muscle atrophy) may include:
- Parasthesia (numbness)? -may suggest peripheral neuropathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Friedrich's ataxia, multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, a herniated disc, spinal cord tumor, peroneal atrophy and syringomyelia
- Symptoms of dystrophia myotonica?
Why: e.g. wasting and weakness of the thigh and upper arm muscles, enlargement of male breasts, frontal baldness, shrinkage of the testicles, deterioration in vision.
- Symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
Why: e.g. refusal to maintain normal body weight, loss of more than 25% of original body weight, intense fear of becoming fat, preoccupation with calorie counting, avoidance of all carbohydrate, fainting.
- Symptoms of hyperthyroidism?
Why: e.g. palpitations, increased heart rate, preference for cooler weather, increased appetite, weight loss, increased sweating, tremor, nervousness, irritability, diarrhea, lack of menstrual periods, frequent urination.
- Symptoms of Myasthenia gravis?
Why: e.g. easy muscle fatigability especially eyelids, neck, shoulders, lower legs and trunk, droopy eyelids, double vision, weak voice.
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Definitions of Muscle atrophy:
Derangement in size and number of muscle fibers occurring with aging, reduction in blood supply, or following immobilization, prolonged weightlessness, malnutrition, and particularly in denervation.
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Organs affected by Muscle atrophy:
The list of organs typically affected by Muscle atrophy may include, but is not limited to:
Detailed list of causes of Muscle atrophy
The list below shows some of the causes of Muscle atrophy mentioned in various sources:
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How Common are these Causes of Muscle atrophy?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Muscle atrophy.
Of the 332
causes of Muscle atrophy that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 7
causes are "very common" diseases
- 2
causes are "common" diseases
- 5
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 3
causes are "rare" diseases
- 16
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 308
causes have no prevalence information.
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Conditions listing symptoms: Muscle atrophy:
The following list of conditions
have 'Muscle atrophy' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
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of any symptom.
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- Acanthocytosis
... muscle wasting
- Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency of
... muscle wasting
- Addison's Disease
... wasting
- Adult progressive spinal muscular atrophy, Aran Duchenne type
... muscle wasting
- Adult SMA
... limb muscle atrophy, muscle wasting
- AIDS wasting syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Alcoholic Neuropathy
... muscle wasting
- Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Alves Castelo dos Santos syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 3
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4, juvenile
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 6
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8
... progressive muscle wasting
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 11
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 9
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 1
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 2
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 3
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 4
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 5
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 6
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 7
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 8
... wasting of muscle tissue
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, type 6
... progressive muscle wasting
- Andersen disease
... muscular atrophy
- Andrade's syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Ankylosis - facial anomalies - pulmonary hypoplasia syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Anorexia Nervosa
... muscle mass loss
- Arachnoiditis
... muscle wasting
- Arthrogryposis, congenital - myopathic seizures
... muscle wasting
- Ataxia, Hereditary, Autosomal Dominant
... muscle wasting
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- MADSAM
... muscle wasting
- Marasmus
... Muscle wasting
- Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Mc Leod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Mental retardation, X-linked, Cabezas type
... muscle wasting
- Mental retardation, X-linked, Zorick type
... muscle wasting
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
... muscle wasting
- Minicore disease
... muscle wasting
- Minicore myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia
... muscle wasting
- Minicore myopathy, antenatal onset, with arthrogryposis
... muscle wasting
- Minicore myopathy, moderate, with hand involvement
... muscle wasting
- Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy - aminoacidopathy
... muscle wasting
- Mitochondrial myopathy - lactic acidosis
... muscle wasting
- Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Miyoshi myopathy
... leg muscle wasting
- Morse-Rawnsley-Sargent syndrome
... muscle wasting
- Motor neuropathy
... muscle wasting
- Motor neuropathy, peripheral with dysautonomia
... progressive muscle wasting
- Multicentric osteolysis - nodulosis - arthropathy
... muscle wasting
- Multifocal motor neuropathy
... muscle atrophy
- Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block
... muscle wasting
- Multiminicore disease (MmD)
... muscle wasting
- Multiple system atrophy
... muscle wasting
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA) with orthostatic hypotension
... muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy - congenital infantile cataract - hypogonadism
... muscle wasting
- Muscular Dystrophy - Late Onset
... progressive muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy - white matter spongiosis
... muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy congenital, with integrin deficiency
... muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy limb girdle type 2A, Erb type
... progressive muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy limb-girdle (generic term)
... muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy, congenital, infantile with cataract - hypogonadism
... muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker type
... atrophy of arm muscle, atrophy of thigh muscles
- Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle - mental retardation
... progressive muscle wasting
- Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle, autosomal dominant
... muscle wasting
- Muscular fibrosis, multifocal - obstructed vessels
... muscle wasting
- Muscular phosphorylase kinase deficiency
... muscle wasting
- Myasthenia, Familial Infantile, 1
... muscle wasting
- Myasthenia, familial limb-girdle
... muscle wasting
- Myasthenia, Limb-Girdle, with Tubular Aggregates
... muscle wasting
- Myasthenic syndrome, congenital, slow-channel
... muscle wasting
- Myopathy and diabetes mellitus
... muscle wasting
- Myopathy with lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anemia
... muscle wasting
- Myopathy, hyaline body, autosomal dominant
... muscle wasting
- Myopathy, Mitochonrdrial Progressive, with Congenital Cataract, Hearing Loss and Developmental Delay
... muscle wasting
- Myopathy, Myofibrillar, BAG3-Related
... muscle wasting
- Myopathy, Myosin storage
... muscle wasting
- Myotonic Dystrophy
... progressive muscle wasting
- Myotonic dystrophy, type 2
... progressive muscle wasting
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Causes of Muscle atrophy Based on Risk Factors
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Doctors and specialists: Who should I consult about Muscle atrophy?
Depending on the seriousness of the onset of Muscle atrophy, you may want to consult one of the following medical professionals.
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What are the alternative names for Muscle atrophy:
Amyotrophy
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Classifications of Muscle atrophy:
Subtypes of Muscle atrophy:
Testicular atrophy (2 causes)
Medical Conditions associated with Muscle atrophy:
Muscle symptoms (6876 causes), Thinness (491 causes), Weight loss (1968 causes), Common symptoms (7994 causes), Body symptoms (4926 causes), Weight symptoms (1874 causes)
Symptoms related to Muscle atrophy:
Muscle weakness (3932 causes), Paralysis (469 causes), Diabetes (148 causes), Rheumatoid arthritis (13 causes), Motor neurone diseases, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Chronic infection, Tuberculosis, Muscle disuse, Joint disuse, Arthritis (79 causes), Joint injuries, Joint inflammation
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