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In medicine, myopathy is a disease of the muscle [1] in which the muscle fibers do not function properly. Myopathy means muscle disease ( Greek : myo- muscle + patheia -pathy : suffering ). This meaning implies that the primary defect is within the muscle, as opposed to the nerves (" neuropathies " or " neurogenic " disorders) or elsewhere (e.g ...
This is a shortened version of the thirteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue.It covers ICD codes 710 to 739.The full chapter can be found on pages 395 to 415 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
349 Other and unspecified disorders of the nervous system 349.0 Reaction to spinal or lumbar puncture 349.1 Nervous system complications from surgically implanted device
425.1 Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy; 425.2 Obscure cardiomyopathy of africa; 425.3 Endocardial fibroelastosis; 425.4 Other primary cardiomyopathies; 425.5 Alcoholic cardiomyopathy; 425.7 Nutritional and metabolic cardiomyopathy; 425.8 Cardiomyopathy in other diseases classified elsewhere; 425.9 Secondary cardiomyopathy unspecified ...
Distal muscular dystrophy, also called distal myopathy, is essentially any muscle disease that preferentially affects the hands and/or feet, a much less common pattern than proximal muscle weakness. Late adult-onset type 1; Late adult-onset type 2a; Late adult-onset type 2b; Early adult-onset type 1; Early adult-onset type 2; Early adult-onset ...
Cardiomyopathy is a group of primary diseases of the heart muscle. [1] Early on there may be few or no symptoms. [1] As the disease worsens, shortness of breath, feeling tired, and swelling of the legs may occur, due to the onset of heart failure. [1]
Polymyositis and the associated inflammatory myopathies have an associated increased risk of cancer. [3] The features they found associated with an increased risk of cancer were older age, age greater than 45, male sex, difficulty swallowing, death of skin cells, cutaneous vasculitis, rapid onset of myositis (<4 weeks), elevated creatine kinase, higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate and higher ...
Congenital nemaline myopathy (neuromuscular disorder) Specialty: Neurology, neuromuscular medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation: Causes: Autoimmune disorders, [1] genetic disorders, [2] environmental factors [3] Diagnostic method: Muscle electrophysiology tests, genetic testing: Treatment: Depends on the disorder; many currently have ...