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Myelopathy - Injury to the entire spinal cord - Signs and Symptoms
 • Ataxia (early sign)
Myelopathy - Injury ... spinal cord - Signs ... Ataxia (early sign ... • Gross motor weakness ... ) #Myelopathy
Hypothyroidism – symptoms and signs.

Symptoms: 
Tiredness/malaise, 
Weight gain,
Anorexia,
Cold intolerance, 
Poor memory,
Change in appearance, 
Depression, 
Poor libido,
– symptoms and signs ... Myalgia, Muscle weakness ... Signs: Mental ... Carpal timel syndrome ... hypertrophy, Proximal myopathy
Autoimmune Myositis
Necrotizing myopathy is associated with higher CK levels, greater level of muscle weakness, less systemic
level of muscle weakness ... heliotrope rash, Shaw sign ... , holster sign, ... anti-synthetase syndrome ... have significant weakness
Weakness - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Approach To Weakness:
 • Non-neuromuscular disorder (Cardiac, pulmonary etc)
 • CNS ->
• Acute stroke syndromes ... Paraneoplastic syndrome ... Lambert-Eaton - Isaacs' syndrome ... Lack of UMN/LMN signs ... Myopathy:
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Musculoskeletal Manifestations

 • Immune Complex Deposition
    - Arthralgia, Arthritis
80%) - Proximal Weakness ... 10%) - Proximal Weakness ... femoral heads • Myopathy ... pathophysiology #signs
Statin Induced Muscle Toxicity - Summary

Clinical Presentation:
 • Elevations of serum creatine kinase with proximal myalgia
proximal myalgia and weakness ... symmetric muscle weakness ... Guillain-Barré syndrome ... antisynthetase syndrome ... Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Causes of Neuromuscular Weakness
 • Spinal Cord: Demyelinating Disease (MS), Epidural abscess, Infarction, Syringomyelia, Tetanus, Transverse
Neuromuscular Weakness ... Guillain-Barre syndrome ... Lambert Eaton Syndrome ... Mitochondrial myopathy ... Neuromuscular #Weakness
Symptoms of Hypophosphatemia
 • CNS: Seizures, Delirium, Paresthesias, Central & extrapontine myelinolysis, Hallucinations, Fatigue
 • Hematologic:
MSK: Proximal myopathy ... Diaphragmatic weakness ... Phosphate #Symptoms #Signs
Causes of Peripheral Weakness without Sensory Changes - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
No Objective Weakness
 • Cardio-pulmonary disease
of Peripheral Weakness ... No Objective Weakness ... Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome ... • Congenital Myopathy ... #Peripheral #Weakness
Hyperthyroidism – symptoms and signs. 

Symptoms:

Weight loss, Increased appetite, Irritability/behaviour change, Restlessness, Malaise, Stiffness, Muscle weakness,
– symptoms and signs ... Stiffness, Muscle weakness ... ), Sweating Signs ... loss, Proximal myopathy ... Hyperthyroidism #Symptoms #Signs