Diaphragmatic dysfunction
Diaphragmatic dysfunction |
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Differential Diagnosis of Underlying Causes
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
- Alcohol abuse
- Bochdalek hernia
- Botulism
- Brachial plexus neuritis
- Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diaphragmatic agenesis
- Diphtheria
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Eventration of the diaphragm
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Iatrogenic
- Idiopathic
- Lead poisoning neuropathy
- Measles
- Metabolic myopathy
- Morgagni hernia
- Motor neuron disease
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Myotonic dystrophies
- Nutritional neuropathy
- Penetrating injuries
- Poliomyelitis
- Polymyositis
- Spinal cord trauma
- Syringomyelia
- Tetanus
- Trauma to the phrenic nerve
- Traumatic rupture
- Typhoid
- Vasculitic neuropathy