Causes of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Causes: Book Excerpts
What causes Spinal Muscular Atrophy?
Causes: Spinal Muscular Atrophy:
Progressive degeneration of certain spinal cord cells (anterior horn cells).
Related information on causes of Spinal Muscular Atrophy:
As with all medical conditions,
there may be many causal factors.
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Alteration in Consciousness:
Principal Causes of Alteration in Consciousness
(The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics)
- Headtrauma
- Concussion
- Brain contusion
- Shearing injury
- Cerebral edema
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Intraparenchymalhemorrhage
- Subdural hematoma
- Epidural hematoma
- Infection/inflammation
- Bacterialmeningitis
- Encephalitis
- Septicemia
- Focal infection
- Brainabscess
- Epidural abscess
- Subdural empyema
- Seizures
- Status epilepticus
- Postictal state
- Brain tumor
- Cerebrovascular disorders
- Cerebralthrombosis
- Cerebral embolism
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Hydrocephalus
- Obstructive (tumor or other cause)
- Shunt malfunction
- Blood pressure disorders
- Hypotension
- Hypertensive encephalopathy
- Metabolic disorders
- Hypoxic-ischemicencephalopathy
- Acute bilirubin encephalopathy (kernicterus)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypothermia
- Heat-related illness
- Hepatic coma
- Reye syndrome
- Uremia
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Maplesyrup urine disease
- Nonketotic hyperglycinemia
- Hyperammonemic disorders
- Urea cycledefects
- Carbamylphosphate synthetase deficiency
- Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
- Argininosuccinic acid synthetase deficiency(citrullinemia)
- Argininosuccinase deficiency (argininosuccinicaciduria)
- N-acetylglutamate synthetase deficiency
- Arginase deficiency (argininemia)
- Organic acid disorders
- Propionic,isovaleric, and methylmalonic acidemias
- Glutaric aciduria, type II (multipleacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency)
- Multiple carboxylase deficiency
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency
- Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency
- Fatty acid oxidation defects
- Respiratory chain disorders
- Lysinuric protein intolerance
- Hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuriasyndrome
- Transient hyperammonemia of prematurity
- Other metabolic disturbances
- Poisoning, drug overdose, and intoxication
- Carbonmonoxide
- Sedative-hypnotic drugs
- Opiates
- Alcohols
- Ethyl alcohol (ethanol)
- Ethylene glycol
- Isopropyl alcohol
- Methyl alcohol (methanol)
- Anticonvulsants
- Phenytoin
- Carbamazepine
- Valproic acid
- Phenothiazines
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Anticholinergic drugs
- Salicylates
- Lead
- Organophosphates
- Amphetamines
- Cocaine
- Hallucinogens (psychedelics)
- Iron
- Hydrocarbons
- Clonidine
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Source: The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics, 2006
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