Causes of Muscle atrophy

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Conditions listing medical complications: Muscle atrophy:

The following list of medical conditions have 'Muscle atrophy' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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List of 311 causes of Muscle atrophy

This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Muscle atrophy in our database from various sources.

• Acanthocytosis - muscle wasting
• Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency of - muscle wasting
• Addison's Disease - wasting
• Adrenal dysfunction
• Adult progressive spinal muscular atrophy, Aran Duchenne type - muscle wasting
• Adult SMA - limb muscle atrophy
• AIDS wasting syndrome - muscle wasting
• Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome - muscle wasting
• Alcoholic neuropathy - muscle wasting
• Alcoholism
• Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome - muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 3 - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4, juvenile - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5 - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 6 - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7 - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8 - progressive muscle wasting
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 9 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 1 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 2 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 3 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 4 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 5 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 6 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 7 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial type 8 - wasting of muscle tissue
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, type 6 - progressive muscle wasting
• Andersen disease - muscular atrophy
• Andrade's syndrome - muscle wasting
• Ankylosis - facial anomalies - pulmonary hypoplasia syndrome - muscle wasting
• Anorexia nervosa - muscle mass loss
• Arachnoiditis - muscle wasting
• Arthritis
• Arthrogryposis, congenital - myopathic seizures - muscle wasting
• Ataxia, Hereditary, Autosomal Dominant - muscle wasting
• Athermoatous disease
• Back tumour - muscle wasting
• Bacterial infections
• Balo's concentric sclerosis - muscle wasting
• Banti's syndrome - muscle wasting
• Bard-Pic syndrome - muscle wasting
• Becker's muscular dystrophy
• Bed rest
• Bethlem myopathy - muscle wasting
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Muscle wasting
• Bruyn-Scheltens syndrome - muscle wasting
• Buerger's disease
• Burns
• Cachexia
• Camurati-Engelmann Disease - muscle atrophy
• Carnitine deficiency
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Cerebellar ataxia, X-linked - muscle wasting
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 3, Juvenile - muscle wasting
• Cervical spondylosis
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 2 - muscle wasting
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 aplasia cutis congenital - progressive muscle wasting
• Chemical poisoning - Hexane - muscle wasting
• Chondroblastoma (benign) - muscle wasting
• Chronic diarrhoea
• Chronic disease
• Chronic infection
• Chronic Kidney Disease - muscle loss/wasting
• Cocaine
• Coenzyme Q 10 (CoQ10), deficiency - muscle wasting
• Complex 1 mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency - muscle wasting
• Congenital benign spinal muscular atrophy dominant - muscle wasting
• Congenital Muscular Dystrophy - muscle wasting
• Congenital muscular dystrophy syringomyelia - muscle wasting
• Coxsacki B virus
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Cushing's Disease
• Cutler Syndrome - progressive muscle wasting
• Cytoplasmic body myopathy - muscle wasting
• Damage to nerve supplying muscle
• Deafness, vitiligo, achalasia - muscle wasting
• Decreased appetite
• Degenerative motor system disease - muscle wasting
• Dermatomyositis - muscle atrophy
• Desmin-related myopathy with Mallory body-like inclusions - muscle wasting
• Diabetes - may cause neuropathy; also muscle loss from muscle breakdown due to hyperglycemia (the cause of ketones).
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Distal myopathy, Welander type - muscle wasting
• Disuse atrophy of muscle
• Disuse of limb
• Drug use
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy - progressive muscle wasting
• Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
• Dyskeratosis congenita of Zinsser-Cole-Engman - atrophy
• Dystrophia myotonica 1 - muscle atrophy
• Embolism of great vessel
• Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, X-linked - progressive muscle wasting
• Endocrine disorders
• Erb's dystrophy - progressive muscle wasting
• Erb-Goldflam - muscle wasting
• FACWA syndrome - muscle wasting
• Fascioscapulohumeral
• Foix-Alajouanine syndrome - muscle wasting
• FOSMN syndrome - muscle wasting
• Friedreich ataxia - congenital glaucoma - muscle wasting
• Fukuyama type muscular dystrophy - muscle wasting
• Furukawa-Takagi-Nakao syndrome - muscle wasting
• Gamstorp-Wohlfart syndrome - muscle wasting
• Gangliosidosis, generalized GM1 type 3 - muscle wasting
• Generalized Myasthenia Gravis - muscle wasting
• Glandular fever
• Glycogen storage myopathy
• Haematomyelia
• Hepatoma - muscle wasting
• Hereditary inclusion body myopathy - joint contractures - ophthalmoplegia - muscle wasting
• Hereditary peripheral nervous disorder - muscle wasting
• Herpes zoster
• Hip cancer - muscle wasting
• HIV
• Hookworm infestation
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypertrophic neuropathy of Dejerine-Sottas - muscle wasting
• Hypothyroidism
• Idiopathic myopathy - muscle wasting
• Immobility
• Immobilized fractures
• Inclusion body myopathy 3, autosomal dominant - muscle wasting
• Inclusion body myopathy, 2 autosomal recessive - leg muscle wasting
• Inclusion Body Myositis - muscle atrophy
• Incontinentia Pigmenti - one-sided body atrophy
• Intercostal neuralgia - muscle atrophy
• Intestinal capillariasis - muscle wasting
• Intramedullary astrocytoma
• Intramedullary ependymoma
• Intramedullary tumor
• Ischemia of motor nerves
• Ischemic palsy
• Jequier-Kozlowski-skeletal dysplasia - muscle wasting
• Joint disuse - e.g. due to disease or injury
• Joint inflammation
• Joint injuries
• Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis - muscle wastage
• Kuskokwim disease - muscle wasting
• Kwashiorkor
• Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome - muscle wasting
• Landouzy-Dejerine muscular dystrophy - muscle wasting
• Legg-Calve-Perthes disease - thigh muscle atrophy
• Leiner Disease - wasting
• Leprosy - muscular atrophy
• Letterer-Siwe disease - wasting
• Levine-Critchley syndrome - muscle wasting
• Lightwood-Albright syndrome - wasting
• Limb girdle
• Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C - muscle wasting
• Lipidosis with triglyceride storage disease - muscle wasting
• Lumbar canal stenosis
• Lumbar spondylosis
• Lupine poisoning - muscle wasting
• MADSAM - muscle wasting
• Malabsorption syndrome
• Malaria
• Malignancy
• Malignant disease
• Malnutrition
• Marasmus - Muscle wasting
• Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome - muscle wasting
• Mc Leod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome - muscle wasting
• Medications
• Meningovascular malformations
• Meniscal tear
• Mental retardation, X-linked, Cabezas type - muscle wasting
• Mental retardation, X-linked, Zorick type - muscle wasting
• Metachromatic Leukodystrophy - muscle wasting
• Minicore disease - muscle wasting
• Minicore myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia - muscle wasting
• Minicore myopathy, antenatal onset, with arthrogryposis - muscle wasting
• Minicore myopathy, moderate, with hand involvement - muscle wasting
• Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy - aminoacidopathy - muscle wasting
• Mitochondrial myopathy - lactic acidosis - muscle wasting
• Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome - muscle wasting
• Miyoshi myopathy - leg muscle wasting
• Morse-Rawnsley-Sargent syndrome - muscle wasting
• Motor neurone disease
• Motor neurone diseases
• Motor neuropathy - muscle wasting
• Motor neuropathy, peripheral with dysautonomia - progressive muscle wasting
• Multicentric osteolysis - nodulosis - arthropathy - muscle wasting
• Multifocal motor neuropathy - muscle atrophy
• Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block - muscle wasting
• Multiminicore disease (MmD) - muscle wasting
• Multiple sclerosis
• Multiple system atrophy - muscle wasting
• Multiple system atrophy (MSA) with orthostatic hypotension - muscle wasting
• Muscle disuse
• Muscle injury
• Muscular dystrophy - congenital infantile cataract - hypogonadism - muscle wasting
• Muscular Dystrophy - Late Onset - progressive muscle wasting
• Muscular dystrophy - white matter spongiosis - muscle wasting
• Muscular dystrophy congenital, with integrin deficiency - muscle wasting
• Muscular dystrophy limb girdle type 2A, Erb type - progressive muscle wasting
• Muscular dystrophy, congenital, infantile with cataract - hypogonadism - muscle wasting
• Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker type - atrophy of arm muscle
• Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle - mental retardation - progressive muscle wasting
• Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle, autosomal dominant - muscle wasting
• Muscular fibrosis, multifocal - obstructed vessels - muscle wasting
• Myasthenia, Familial Infantile, 1 - muscle wasting
• Myasthenia, familial limb-girdle - muscle wasting
• Myasthenia, Limb-Girdle, with Tubular Aggregates - muscle wasting
• Myasthenic syndrome, congenital, slow-channel - muscle wasting
• Myopathy and diabetes mellitus - muscle wasting
• Myopathy with lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anemia - muscle wasting
• Myopathy, hyaline body, autosomal dominant - muscle wasting
• Myopathy, Myosin storage - muscle wasting
• Myotonic dystrophy - progressive muscle wasting
• Myotonic dystrophy, type 2 - progressive muscle wasting
• NADH CoQ reductase, deficiency of - muscle wasting
• Neglected diabetes mellitus
• Nemalin myopathy, late onset type - muscle wasting
• Nemaline myopathy 5 - progressive muscle wasting
• Nephrotic syndrome - wasting muscles
• Nerve compression - muscle wasting
• Nerve entrapment - muscle wasting
• Nerve injury
• Neu-Laxova Syndrome - muscular atrophy
• Neuropathy - Muscle loss
• Neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory, LOM type - muscle wasting
• Neuropathy, Hereditary Sensory, Type II - muscle wasting
• Neurosyphilis - muscle wasting
• Nodulosis-arthropathy-osteolysis syndrome - muscle wasting
• Obal syndrome - muscle wasting
• Oculopharyngeal dystrophy
• Old age
• Olivopontocerebellar atrophy I - muscle wasting
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteogenesis imperfecta - low muscle mass
• Palmoplantar keratoderma - amyotrophy - muscle wasting
• Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - muscle wasting
• Paralysis of limbs
• Parasitic infections
• Parkinson's disease
• Parsonage Turner syndrome - muscle wasting
• Passos-Bueno syndrome - muscle wasting
• Penicillamine
• Peripheral neuropathy - muscle loss
• Polio
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Polymyositis
• Polyradiculoneuropathy - muscle wasting
• Pontocerebellar hypoplasia with infantile spinal muscular atrophy - muscle wasting
• Post-polio syndrome - muscular atrophy
• Posterior column ataxia with retinitis pigmentosa - muscle wasting
• Primary biliary cirrhosis - muscle wasting
• Primary Lateral Sclerosis - progressive muscle wasting
• Primary muscle disease (myopathy)
• Progressive spinal muscular atrophy - progressive muscle wasting
• Prolapsed lumbar intervertebral disc
• Prolonged immobilization
• Protein deficiency
• Proximal spinal muscular atrophy - progressive muscle wasting
• Proximal spinal muscular atrophy, type 1 - muscle wasting
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome - muscle atrophy
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Rib Tumor - muscle wasting
• Richards-Rundle syndrome - muscle wasting
• Rud Syndrome - muscular atrophy
• Salvioli syndrome - muscle wasting
• Sandhoff Disease - muscle wasting
• Sarcoidosis
• Schistosomiasis
• Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome - progressive muscle wasting
• Scleroatonic muscular dystrophy - muscle wasting
• Short Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SCAD) - muscle wasting
• Singleton-Merten Syndrome - progressive muscle wasting
• Small syndrome - muscle wasting
• Soft tissue edema
• Soft tissue hemorrhage
• Spinal bulbar motor neuropathy - muscle wasting
• Spinal cord injury
• Spinal cord lesion
• Spinal cord tumor
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy - muscle atrophy
• Spinal tumor
• Spinocerebellar ataxia - amyotrophy - deafness - muscle wasting
• Spinocerebellar ataxia 3 - muscle wasting
• Statins
• Steroid use
• Storm syndrome - muscle wasting
• Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
• Surgical ligation of major vessel
• Syphilitic amyotrophy
• Syringomyelia
• Tay Sachs - Muscle atrophy
• Thoracic outlet syndrome TOS - muscle atrophy
• Thrombosis of great vessel
• Thyrocerebral-retinal syndrome - muscle wasting
• Thyroid disease
• Thyroid dysfunction
• Tourniquet paralysis
• Toxoplasmosis
• Trichinosis
• Tropical sprue - wasting
• Tuberculosis
• Ulerythema ophryogenesis - Atrophy
• Undiagnosed diabetes mellitus
• Vacuolar myopathy - muscle wasting
• Vascular disease
• Viral infections
• Virus infection
• Volkmann's contracture
• Wasting Syndrome - muscle wasting
• Welander distal myopathy, Swedish type - Wasting
• Wieacker syndrome - Muscle atrophy
• Wilson's Disease - muscle wasting
• Wohlwill-Andrade syndrome - Muscle wasting
• X-linked mental retardation - hypotonia - muscle wasting

Drug side effect causes of Muscle atrophy

The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Muscle atrophy as a side effect.

• Corticotropin
• ACTH
• Acthar
• H.P. Acthar Gel
• Plague vaccine

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