Neuromuscular disease

Classification according to ICD-10
G70	Myasthenia gravis and other neuromuscular diseases
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Neuromuscular diseases are an inhomogeneous group of diseases of the muscle cells ( myopathy ), the motor end plate , the peripheral nervous system ( neuropathy ) or combinations thereof.

In addition to this broad definition, the term can also be limited to diseases in which there is a disorder of the neuromuscular conduction of excitation.

The neuromuscular diseases group includes:

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Guillain-Barré Syndrome
• Congenital myasthenic syndrome
• Congenital myopathy
• Lambert-Eaton-Rooke Syndrome
• Mitochondrial myopathy
• Mitochondrial Disease # Kearns-Sayre Syndrome (KSS)
• Mononeuropathia multiplex (peripheral neuropathy)
• Pompe disease
• Muscular dystrophy
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• Muscle spasm-muscle pain and fasciculations syndrome
• Myasthenia gravis
• Type I myotonic dystrophy
• Neuromyotonia
• Spastic paraplegia
• Spinal muscular atrophy
• Spinal muscular atrophy with type 1 shortness of breath
• Kennedy type spinobulbar muscular atrophy
• Sporadic inclusion body myositis
• Stiff-man syndrome

Such diseases can also occur in veterinary medicine . One example is the Exercise Induced Collapse in domestic dogs.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on neuromuscular disease in the Flexikon , a Wiki of the DocCheck company
2. ↑ Lexicon Orthopedics
3. ^ Spinal muscular atrophy with dyspnoea type 1. In: Orphanet (database for rare diseases).

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