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Acute Motor Weakness Causes

Aka: Acute Motor Weakness Causes, Emergent Bilateral Motor Weakness, Weakness of Acute Onset

See Also
Causes: Autoimmune
1. Myasthenia Gravis
2. Polymyositis
3. Demyelinating Disease
  1. Guillain-Barre Syndrome
  2. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
Causes: Toxin (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)
  3. Lead Poisoning
  4. Organophosphates
  5. n-Hexane
6. Medications
  1. Dapsone
Causes: Metabolic
1. Thyrotoxicosis
2. Hypophosphatemia
3. Hypermagnesemia
4. Porphyria
Causes: Infectious
1. Poliomyelitis
2. Diphtheria
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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