Muscular Disease

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 More General Terms 4 Additional Terms 5 References

More Specific Terms

• Bethlem myopathy
• critical illness weakness
• genetic disease of muscle (inherited myopathy)
• hyperCKemia (elevated serum creatine phosphokinase)
• metabolic myopathy
• muscle atrophy (amyotrophy)
• myasthenic syndrome (congenital myasthenic syndrome, CMS)
• myofascial pain syndrome
• myofibrillar myopathy
• myositis (inflammatory myopathy)
• neurogenic scapuloperoneal syndrome Kaeser type (Kaeser syndrome)
• neuromuscular disease; myoneural disease
• rhabdomyolysis
• rippling muscle disease
• sarcopenia
• Ulrich myopathy

Introduction

• Primary diseases of muscle are often developed into 3 major groups:
• muscular dystrophies
• metabolic myopathies
• inflammatory myopathies ( myositis)

More General Terms

• musculoskeletal disease/disorder

Additional Terms

• age-associated changes in skeletal muscle
• skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle)

References

Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998

muscular disease; myopathy