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Diagnostic algorithms for neuromuscular diseases
R Mañon-Espaillat et al. Clin Podiatr Med Surg. 1999 Jan.
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Neuromuscular disorders can impose significant disability in patients by virtue of weakness, pain, and sensory and autonomic symptoms and deficits. For all of these disorders, supportive measures, appropriate physical therapy, and respiratory support are beneficial. Pain management can be accomplished by the use of antiepileptic medications, such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, valproic, and gabapentin. Tricyclic antidepressants can also be helpful for pain management and depression. Benzodiazepines and baclofen are helpful for management of spasticity. No specific treatment exists yet for the motor neuron disorders. In peripheral neuropathies, identifying and treating the cause is most important. In other neuropathies, such as in acute or chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies, immunosuppression is indicated. Myasthenia gravis can be treated with cholinesterase inhibitors and immunosuppression. A specific treatment does not exist yet for muscular dystrophies. Immunosuppression is helpful in patients with inflammatory myopathies. Toxic myopathies can be treated by removing the causative agent and by supportive measures. Endocrine myopathies will respond to treatment of the primary endocrinopathy.
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