Muscle Wasting
April 17th, 2019
Overview
Feel For
- Decreased muscle mass. Note whether wasting is isolated to a single muscle, muscle group, limb, or is generalised.
Causes of Muscle Wasting
Localised Muscle Wasting
- Disuse
- Denervation - trauma, motor neurone disease, Guillain-barré Syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, polio
- Muscular disorders - inflammatory myopathy, muscular dystrophies
Generalised Muscle Wasting (Sarcopaenia)
- Frailty
- Malnutrition - poor diet, malabsorption, cancer
- Chronic disease - cancer, heart failure, COPD, infection, cirrhosis, kidney disease
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