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Acute Motor Weakness CausesAka: Emergent Bilateral Motor Weakness, Weakness of Acute Onset

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  1. See Also
    1. Movement Disorder
    2. Myopathy Causes
    3. Hemiparesis
  2. Autoimmune Causes
    1. Myasthenia Gravis
    2. Polymyositis
    3. Demyelinating Disease
      1. Guillain-Barre Syndrome
      2. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
  3. Toxin Causes (See Also Biological Neurotoxin)
    1. Botulism
    2. Buckthorn
    3. Seafood
      1. Paralytic shellfish toxin
      2. Tetrodotoxin
    4. Tick Paralysis
    5. Compound exposures
      1. Arsenic
      2. Thallium (found in rodenticides)
        1. Nausea and Vomiting
        2. Altered Level of Consciousness
        3. Seizures
      3. Lead Poisoning
      4. Organophosphates
      5. n-Hexane
    6. Medications
      1. Dapsone
  4. Metabolic Causes
    1. Thyrotoxicosis
    2. Hypophosphatemia
    3. Hypermagnesemia
    4. Porphyria
  5. Infectious Causes
    1. Poliomyelitis
    2. Diphtheria
  6. References
    1. Gallagher in Marx (2002) Rosen's Emergency Med, p. 1510
    2. Pryse-Phillips in Noble (2001) Primary Care, p. 1589

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