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Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
of Peripheral Weakness ... Sensory Changes - Differential ... Polymyositis • Duchenne ... Muscular Dystrophy ... #Neurology #Differential
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Neuromuscular Weakness ... Motor Nerves: ALS ... , Myotonic dystrophy ... #Causes #differential ... #diagnosis #neurology
In this video, you see right sided atrophy, right sided deviation, and fasiculations R>L, indicating a
He also had some ... Dysarthria means ... hoarseness; and CNXII ... HypoglossalNerve #CNXII ... #CN12 #Neurology
Myasthenia Gravis Overview

Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder of the postsynaptic neuromuscular junction.  Ab to
15%: Dysphagia, dysarthria ... life-threatening Differential ... syndrome - Myotonic dystrophy ... Generalized fatigue - ALS ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
Causes progressive weakness ... Dysarthria or dysphagia ... bulbar region, Weakness ... conditions listed in differential ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology