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  2. Myasthenia gravis - Wikipedia

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    Generalized MG has muscle weakness with a variable combination of the bulbar, axial, or limb and respiratory muscles. [ 54 ] Patients can also be sub-grouped by the age of onset: juvenile-onset MG (onset age ≤ 18 years of age), early-onset MG (EOMG; 19–50 years of age), late-onset MG (LOMG; onset > 50 years of age), and very late-onset ...

  3. Muscle weakness - Wikipedia

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    Its causes are many and can be divided into conditions that have either true or perceived muscle weakness. True muscle weakness is a primary symptom of a variety of skeletal muscle diseases, including muscular dystrophy and inflammatory myopathy. It occurs in neuromuscular junction disorders, such as myasthenia gravis. Muscle weakness can also ...

  4. Calpainopathy - Wikipedia

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    Age of onset is highly variable, although symptoms usually appear between 8 and 15 years of age. [3] Patients usually lose the ability to ambulate 10 – 20 years after symptoms appear. [ 3 ] Milder forms present with symptoms other than weakness, such as muscle aches, cramps, or exercise intolerance, and people in this group can retain ...

  5. Muscular dystrophy - Wikipedia

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    Generalised weakness Symptoms include general muscle weakness and possible joint deformities. Disease progresses slowly, and lifespan is shortened. Congenital muscular dystrophy includes several disorders with a range of symptoms. Muscle degeneration may be mild or severe.

  6. Weakness - Wikipedia

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    Myasthenia or myasthaenia (my- from Greek: μυο meaning "muscle" + -asthenia [ἀσθένεια] meaning "weakness"), or simply muscle weakness, is a lack of muscle strength. The causes are many and can be divided into conditions that have either true or perceived muscle weakness. True muscle weakness is a primary symptom of a variety of ...

  7. Kocher–Debre–Semelaigne syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Other features are pseudomyotonia, myokymia, slow tendon reflex, slowed muscle contractions and relaxations, muscle stiffness, proximal muscle weakness and myopathy. The severity of these symptoms are determined by the period of hypothyroidism and the degree of deficiency of thyroid hormones. [10] It may also include macroglossia. [11]

  8. Guillain–Barré syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Guillain–Barré syndrome (also called "GBS") is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system. [3] Typically, both sides of the body are involved, and the initial symptoms are changes in sensation or pain often in the back along with muscle weakness, beginning in the feet and hands, often spreading to the arms and upper body. [3]

  9. Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome - Wikipedia

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    In MDDS associated with mutations in TK2, infants generally develop normally, but by around two years of age, symptoms of general muscle weakness (called "hypotonia"), tiredness, lack of stamina, and difficulty feeding begin to appear. Some toddlers start to lose control of the muscles in their face, mouth, and throat, and may have difficulty ...