Type your tag names separated by a space and hit enter

    Myopathy

    Myopathy is a topic covered in the Diagnosaurus.

    To view the entire topic, please or purchase a subscription.

    Emergency Central is a collection of disease, drug, and test information including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Davis’s Drug, McGraw-Hill Medical’s Diagnosaurus®, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and MEDLINE Journals created for emergency medicine professionals. Explore these free sample topics:

    Emergency Central

    -- The first section of this topic is shown below --

    Etiology

    • Alcoholism
    • Endocrine: hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Cushing’s syndrome
    • Chronic hypokalemia
    • Polymyositis
    • Dermatomyositis
    • HIV myopathy
    • Hyperparathyroidism
    • Muscular dystrophy, eg, Duchenne, Becker, limb-girdle, facioscapulohumeral (FSH)
    • Myotonic dystrophy
    • Myotonia congenita
    • Inclusion body myositis
    • Mitochondrial myopathy
    • Sarcoidosis
    • Drugs: corticosteroids, statins, clofibrate, colchicine, chloroquine, zidovudine, emetine, aminocaproic acid, bretylium, penicillamine, drugs causing hypokalemia

    -- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please or purchase a subscription --

    Last updated: December 1, 2014

    Citation

    Zeiger, Roni F.. "Myopathy." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114840/all/Myopathy.
    Zeiger RF. Myopathy. Diagnosaurus. 4th ed. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114840/all/Myopathy. Accessed March 20, 2019.
    Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Myopathy. In Diagnosaurus. Available from https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114840/all/Myopathy
    Zeiger RF. Myopathy [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2019 March 20]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114840/all/Myopathy.
    * Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case
    TY - ELEC T1 - Myopathy ID - 114840 A1 - Zeiger,Roni F, Y1 - 2014/12/01/ BT - Diagnosaurus UR - https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114840/all/Myopathy PB - McGraw-Hill Education ET - 4 DB - Emergency Central DP - Unbound Medicine ER -