Symptom
Muscle atrophy
A pathological reduction in skeletal muscle mass and fiber cross-sectional area leading to decreased muscle strength and impaired function. Possible causes are disuse (immobility, sedentary lifestyle, prolonged weightlessness during spaceflight), denervation (ALS, SMA, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve damage, stroke, multiple sclerosis), systemic disease (cancer, heart failure, COPD, HIV), corticosteroids, aging, or malnutrition.
Also known as: Muscle wasting, Muscular atrophy, Myopenia, Cachexia, Muscle loss
Referencing diagnoses
- Adrenal cortical carcinoma
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Celiac disease
- Cushings disease
- Cushing syndrome
- Lead toxicity
- Leporsy
- Lung cancer
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Polyneuropathy
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Systemic sclerosis
- Toxic nodular goiter
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