title: [Neuromuscular diseases - pathophysiology, diagnostics and therapy].
abstract: Neuromuscular illnesses are characterized by a motor weakness or unusual muscular fatigue. Besides in some diseases sensory disturbances and pains are prominent. The causes of the disturbed interaction between nerve and muscle are varied and reach from illnesses of the motor anterior horn cells of the spinal cord about multifactorial lesions of peripheral nerves, a disturbance of the neuromuscular junction up to primary and secondary myopathies. In addition to the clinical examination electrophysiological procedures, specific laboratory tests from serum and CSF as well as the nerve or muscle biopsy allow a further etiology clarification. Few illnesses are separateable by specific genetic investigations.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Neurologie, Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg. tim.treuheit@med.ovgu.de
authors.forename: Tim-Oliver
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Treuheit
mesh_terms: D001906:Botulism / Q000503:physiopathology; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015624:Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008305:Malignant Hyperthermia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D028361:Mitochondrial Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D016472:Motor Neuron Disease / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000503:physiopathology; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000378:metabolism; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures
chemical_list: D009211:Myoglobin; D002097:C-Reactive Protein