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**Can't miss diagnoses: | **Can't miss diagnoses: | ||
*** [[Acute Coronary Syndrome (Main)|ACS]] | *** [[Acute Coronary Syndrome (Main)|ACS]] | ||
*** Arrhythmia/[[Syncope]] | *** [[Arrhythmia]]/[[Syncope]] | ||
*** | *** Severe infection/[[Sepsis (Main)|Sepsis]] | ||
*** [[Hypoglycemia]] | *** [[Hypoglycemia]] | ||
*** Periodic paralysis (electrolyte disturbance, K, Mg, Ca) | *** Periodic paralysis ([[electrolyte disturbance]], K, Mg, Ca) | ||
****[[Hypokalemic periodic paralysis]] | ****[[Hypokalemic periodic paralysis]] | ||
****[[Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis]] | ****[[Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis]] | ||
*** Respiratory failure | *** [[Respiratory failure]] | ||
**Emergent Diagnoses: | **Emergent Diagnoses: | ||
*** Symptomatic [[Anemia]] | *** Symptomatic [[Anemia]] | ||
*** Severe dehydration | *** Severe [[dehydration]] | ||
*** [[Hypothyroidism]] | *** [[Hypothyroidism]] | ||
*** Polypharmacy | *** Polypharmacy | ||
Revision as of 22:10, 1 October 2019
Weakness
- Neuromuscular weakness
- Upper motor neuron:
- Lower motor neuron:
- Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's syndrome)
- Spinal cord disease:
- Infection (Epidural abscess)
- Infarction/ischemia
- Trauma (Spinal Cord Syndromes)
- Inflammation (Transverse Myelitis)
- Degenerative (Spinal muscular atrophy)
- Tumor
- Peripheral nerve disease:
- NMJ disease:
- Muscle disease:
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Dermatomyositis
- Polymyositis
- Alcoholic myopathy
- Non-neuromuscular weakness
- Can't miss diagnoses:
- ACS
- Arrhythmia/Syncope
- Severe infection/Sepsis
- Hypoglycemia
- Periodic paralysis (electrolyte disturbance, K, Mg, Ca)
- Respiratory failure
- Emergent Diagnoses:
- Symptomatic Anemia
- Severe dehydration
- Hypothyroidism
- Polypharmacy
- Malignancy
- Other causes of weakness and paralysis
- Acute intermittent porphyria (ascending weakness)
- Can't miss diagnoses: