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Neuromuscular disorders FM Brett MD., FRCPath. At the end of this lecture you should be able to : Distinguish between UMN and LMN lesions Understand the differences between a neuropathy and a myopathy 3. Know how MND presents Know the common causes of a peripheral neuropathy - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Page 1: Neuromuscular disorders FM Brett MD., FRCPath

Neuromuscular disorders

FM Brett MD., FRCPath

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At the end of this lecture you should be able to:

1. Distinguish between UMN and LMN lesions

2. Understand the differences between a neuropathy and a myopathy

3. Know how MND presents

3. Know the common causes of a peripheral neuropathy

4. Know the importance of clinical history, f/x and examination in understanding muscle disease.

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Sites of lesions producing neuromuscular pathology

Either the upper (1,2,3) or lower motor neurone pathway (4,5), N-M-J (6) or muscle (7) may be responsible

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Sites of lesions producing neuromuscular pathology

Commonest causes trauma or vascular accidents (1,2) or demyelination (2,3,4,5)neuronal degeneration (4), transmission defects (6) and membrane, fibrillary or metabolic lesions (7).

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The motor unit

NMJ

M

Neurone Axon

Diseases ofDiseases ofmotor neuronesmotor neurones

Peripheralneuropathies

Diseases of neuromuscular transmission

Primary muscledisease: myopathies

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MND ALS~ generalised wasting & fasiculation

~ Bulbar muscle involvement common

~ Associated upper motor neurone symptoms and signs

~ No sensory symptoms

~ Steadily progressive and fatal

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Clinical presentation of MND

• Selective loss of LMN from pons, medulla and spinal cord, together with loss of UMN from the brain

• Clinical picture varies depending on whether :a) upper or lower motor neurones are predominantly involveda) Which muscles are most affectedb) The rate of cell loss

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Aetiology of ALS

~ cause unknown

~ 5-10% AD and in familial cases usually starts 10 years earlier than sporadic cases

~ Mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene on Ch 21q accounts for 25% of all familial cases

~ Mutations of the neurofilament heavy

~ Tunisian ALS uncommon AR disease linked to 2q33-q35

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Macroscopic examination reveals

the anterior spinal nerve roots to

be shrunken and grey in appearance

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Pathology

~ Loss of motor neurones and astrocytosis in spinal cord, brain stemand motor cortex~ Motor neurones in the pons and medulla are often involved in the disease process

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The motor unit

NMJ

M

Neurone Axon

Diseases ofmotor neurones

PeripheralPeripheralneuropathiesneuropathies

Diseases of neuromuscular transmission

Primary muscledisease|: myopathies

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Peripheral neuropathy

~ Axonal or demyelinating

~ Neurotransmission most impaired in long nerves because nerve impulse confronted by a greater number of demyelinated segments

~ Therefore symptoms distal in distribution~ Affects legs and feet more than arm and hand

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axonmyelin

Node of ranvier

Spinal cord

Peripheral nerveM

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Common causes of peripheral neuropathyCommon causes of peripheral neuropathy1. Deficiency – Vit B1 alcoholic

Vit B6 in pts taking isoniazid Vit B12 in patients with PA and bowel disease

2. Toxic AlcoholDrugs – isoniazid, vincristine

3. Metabolic – DM, CRF

4. Post-infectious – Guillain- Barre syndrome

5. Collagen vascular – RA, SLE, PA

6. Hereditary – Charcot- Marie – Tooth disease

7. Idiopathic – Perhaps up to 50% cases

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Guillane-Barree syndrome

~ Rapid evolution over several days~ Life threatening weakness~ Affects nerve roots as well as peripheral nerves~ Occurs within 2 weeks of an infection usually campylobacter, cytomegalo, EBV~ Auto-immune response~ Weakness and sensory symptoms which worsen daily for 1-2 weeks~ Demyelinating polyneuropathy and polyradiculopathy

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Myasthenia Gravis

UMN LMNNMJ

M

~ Muscle weakness without wasting ~ Fatiguability~ Ocular and bulbar muscles commonly involved~ Responds well to treatment

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Muscle disease

UMN LMNNMJ

M

~ Muscle weakness and wasting – the distribution of which dependson the type of disease but strong tendency to involve proximal musclesi.e trunk and limb girdles

~ Various causes

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Classification

Inherited Acquired

• Muscular dystrophies Endocrinopathies• Myotonic dystrophy Drug induced• Congenital myopathis Idiopathic

inflammatory myopathy

• Metabolic myopathies Metabolic myopathy

• Channelopathies Myasthenia Gravis/LEMS

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Aim of the history and examination

• To identify mode of inheritance

• Accompanying features

• Key pattern of muscle involvement

• Functional status

• Minimum tests to establish a diagnosis

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Diagnostic Consultation

• F/x tree

• Personal and f/x h/x

• Observation

• Functional assessment

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Pattern of muscle involvement:

• Specific in familial muscular dystrophies e.g fascioscapuloperoneal

•Proximal weakness in the limbs in acquired diseases of muscle such as polymyositis

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Distribution of onset of muscle weakness

A. Typical proximal (limb-girdle) distribution of a myopathic disorder(DMD)

B. More distal (glove and stocking) distribution of a neurogenic disorder (SMA)

C. FSH –own distribution

D. SP - own distribution

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Investigations of patients with generalised muscle weakness and wasting

MND Peripheral neuropathy

Muscle disease

CPK N N

EMG Neuropathic Neuropathic Myopathic

Histology Denervation Denervation Primary muscle disease

TEST

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CONCLUSIONS

• UMN – lesions involving the corticospinal tract

• LMN – lesions involving brain stem and spinal cord

• MND – may present with UMN and LMN signs

• Peripheral neuropathy may be axonal or demyelinating

• Muscle disease may be inherited or acquired


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