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Weight Loss (A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis)

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Weight Loss

Ankylosing spondylitis
Bilateral lesions of the lateral hypothalamus (hypothalamic anorexia)
Decreased food intake/malnutrition
   Abdominal angina
   Anorexia of aging
   Chronic/recurrent nausea/vomiting
   Dementia/Alzheimer's disease
   Esophageal disease/dysphagia
    Esophagitis
    Neoplasm
    Neuromuscular dysfunction
    Reflux
    Scleroderma
    Stricture
   Medications
    Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (distortion of taste)
    Antidepressants
    Clonidine
    Digoxin
    Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory agents
    Sedatives
    Theophylline
   Obstructive gastrointestinal disease (including pyloric obstruction due to chronic peptic ulcer disease)
   Oral disease
    Loose dentures
    Poor or absent teeth
    Other oral diseases
   Pain
   Poor social situation
   Postantrectomy (especially Billroth II) or gastrectomy
   Poverty
   Unpalatable diets
Endocrine disorders
   Adrenal insufficiency
   Diabetes mellitus
   Diabetic neuropathic cachexia
   Hypercalcemia
   Panhypopituitarism
   Pheochromocytoma
   Thyrotoxicosis
Extensive exercise
Infection, especially
   Amebic abscess
   Bacterial endocarditis
   Chronic suppurative pleuropulmonary disease (e.g., emphysema)
   Cryptosporidiosis
   Fungal diseases
   Giardiasis
   Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Mycobacterium avium   pulmonary infections
   Parasitic infestations
   Paraspinal/epidural abscess
   Tuberculosis
   Visceral leishmaniasis
Maldigestion/malabsorption
    Inflammatory bowel disease
    Pernicious anemia
Malignancy, especially
   Biliary
   Breast
   Gastrointestinal
   Glucagonoma
   Hepatic
   Leukemia
   Lymphoma
   Myeloma
   Pancreatic
   Pulmonary
   Somatostatinoma
Myelofibrosis
Myotonic dystrophy
Parkinson's disease
Pink disease (mercury poisoning in children)
Psychiatric disease
   Anorexia nervosa
   Anxiety disorders
   Bulimia
   Conversion disorders
   Depression
   Manipulative behaviors
   Psychosis/paranoia
   Schizophrenia
   Substance abuse
Severe chronic organ failure
   Heart failure (cardiac cachexia)
   Hepatic disease
   Pulmonary disease
   Renal failure
Systemic lupus erythematosus

References

1. Foster DW: Gain and Loss in Weight, p. 245. See Bibliography, 1.
2. Baron RB: Protein-Energy Malnutrition, p. 1154. See Bibliography, 5.

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Hearing loss (Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses)

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Weight loss, excessive (Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses)

Hair Loss (The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics)

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More About This Book:
Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
Authors: Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Copyright: 1999
ISBN: 0-78171-943-7

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