Common causes of Myopathy

Causes of Myopathy that are very common

The following causes of Myopathy are diseases or medical conditions that affect more than 10 million people in the USA:

• Alcoholism
• Diabetes

Causes of Myopathy that are rare

The offical US government definition of a "rare" disease is one that affects 200,000 people or less. The following causes of Myopathy appear in the population at a rate of less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Kearns-Sayre Syndrome - myopathy

Causes of Myopathy that are very rare

The following causes of Myopathy appear in the population at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Addison's disease
• Amyloidosis
• Cushing's syndrome
• Dermatomyositis
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Hyperparathyroidism
• Muscular dystrophy
• Polymyositis
• Sarcoidosis

Causes of Myopathy without any prevalence information

The following causes of Myopathy are ones for which we do not have any prevalence information.

• Aconitase deficiency - myopathy
• Addison's disease
• Alcoholism
• Aldolase A deficiency - myopathy
• Amish nemaline myopathy
• Arnold Stickler Bourne syndrome - myopathy
• Arthrogryposis due to muscular dystrophy - myopathy
• Atorvastatin
• Barth syndrome
• Becker muscular dystrophy
• Bethlem myopathy
• Borud Syndrome - myopathy
• Brown Recluse spider poisoning - myopathy
• Calpainopathy
• Cardiomyopathy with myopathy due to COX deficency - myopathy
• Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome
• Carnitine deficiency
• Carnitine deficiency (systemic)
• Carnitine deficiency myopathy
• Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 deficiency
• Cataract and cardiomyopathy - myopathy
• Central core myopathy
• Chemical poisoning - Phencyclidine - myopathy
• Chloroquine
• Christian syndrome 1
• Chronic hypokalemia
• Colchicine
• Complex 2 mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency - myopathy
• Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 2D - myopathy
• Congenital muscular dystrophy, autosomal recessive
• Cushing's disease
• Cushing's syndrome
• Desmin-related myopathy
• Diabetes
• Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, autosomal dominant
• Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, autosomal recessive
• Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, dominant type - myopathy
• Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, X-linked - myopathy
• Ethanol
• Forbes disease - myopathy
• Freeman-Sheldon Syndrome - myopathy
• Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy
• Gigantism - myopathy
• Glutaric acidemia type 2
• Glycerol kinase deficiency
• Glycogen branching deficiency - myopathy
• Glycogen debranching deficiency - myopathy
• Glycogen storage diseases
• Glycogenosis type 2
• Glycogenosis type 3
• HIV myopathy
• HIV-1 disease
• Hypercalcemia
• Hyperkalemia
• Hypermagnesemia
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypocalcaemia
• Hypokalaemia
• Hyponatremia
• Hypothyroidism
• Inclusion body myopathy, autosomal recessive
• Lactate dehydrogenase deficiency - myopathy
• Limb girdle muscular dystrophy
• Lundberg II syndrome - myopathy
• Malignancy
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Marinesco-Sjogren-Garland syndrome
• Marinesco-Sjogren-like syndrome (MSLS) - myopathy
• Medications
• MELAS - myopathy
• MERRF
• Mitochondrial myopathies
• Mitochondrial myopathy
• Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome - myopathy
• Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency
• Molybdenum, cofactor deficiency, inherited - myopathy
• Muscle-eye-brain disease
• Muscular dystrophy, late-onset distal
• Myoneurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome
• Myopathy with Deficiency of Succinate Dehydrogenase and Aconitase - myopathy
• Myopathy with Exercise Intolerance, Swedish type - myopathy
• Myopathy with lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anemia - myopathy
• Myopathy with Lactic Acidosis, Hereditary - myopathy
• Myopathy with lysis of myofibrils - myopathy
• Myopathy, limb-girdle, with bone fragility - myopathy
• Myotonia congenita
• Myotonic dystrophy
• Myotubular myopathy
• Myotubular myopathy, X-linked
• Native American myopathy - myopathy
• Nemaline myopathy, autosomal dominant
• Nemaline myopathy, autosomal recessive
• Nonaka myopathy
• Osteomalacia
• Periodic paralysis
• Phosphogylcerate mutase 2 deficiency
• Polyneuropathy - Ophthalmoplegia - Leukoencehalopathy - Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction - myopathy
• Pravastatin
• Prednisolone
• Proximal renal tubular acidosis
• Rigid spine muscular dystrophy type 1
• Rosuvastatin
• Severe systemic illness
• Short chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
• Simvastatin
• Spheroid body myopathy - myopathy
• Steroids
• Tel Hashomer camptodactyly syndrome
• Thyroid eye disease - myopathy
• Triosephosphate isomerase 1 - myopathy
• Triosephosphate isomerase deficiency
• Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
• Very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
• Vitamin D dependent rickets type 1
• Walker-Warburg syndrome
• Welander muscular dystrophy
• Woods Black Norbury syndrome - Myopathy
• X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy
• Xanthine oxidase deficiency type I - myopathy
• Xanthine oxidase deficiency type II - myopathy
• Zidovudine

All Causes of Myopathy

The full list of all possible causes for Myopathy described in various sources is as follows:

• Aconitase deficiency - myopathy
• Addison's disease
• Alcoholism
• Aldolase A deficiency - myopathy
• Amish nemaline myopathy

See full list of possible disease causes of Myopathy

Drug side effect causes of Myopathy

• Amicar
• Aminocaproic Acid

Drug interaction causes of Myopathy:

• Lovastatin (Mevacor) and Fluvoxamine (Luvox ) interaction
• Lovastatin (Mevacor) and Fluconazole (Diflucan ) interaction
• Lovastatin (Mevacor) and Itraconazole (Sporanox ) interaction
• Lovastatin (Mevacor) and Ketoconazole (Nizoral ) interaction
• Lovastatin (Mevacor) and Voriconazole (Vfend ) interaction

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