CH45: Muscle Flashcards
Muscles make how many percent of body weight of human beings (p. 1405)
40%
interdigitating filaments
contractile proteins
structural proteins
regulatory proteins
(p. 1405)
myofilaments
actin and myosin
titin and nebulin
tropomyosin and troponin
Basic physiologic unit in all reflex, postural and voluntary activities (p. 1405)
Motor unit
Type I vs Type 2 Muscles (p. 1406)
Type 1: increase oxidation, decrease glycogen stores
percussion myotonia vs myoedema (p. 1410)
myoedema are electrically silent
brief fascicular contraction that is induced by tapping a anormal or partially denervated muscle (p. 1410)
idiomuscular contraction
In this type of contracture, the muscles remain shortened for many minutes because of failre of the metabolic mechanism necessary for relaxation (p. 1410)
trye physiologic contracture
There is fibrosis of muscle and surroinding tissues as a result of ischemic injury usually after a fracture of the elbow (p. 1410)
Volkmann contracture
Form of fibrous contracture that is found in newborns involving two features: fibrosis of muscle and neural or muscular apparatus that results in muscular weakness (p. 1410)
Arthrogryposis
Triad of Satayoshi syndrome (p. 1411)
pianful leg cramps
alopecia universalis
diarrhea
Puffy face and tender muscles
Biopsy: segmental necrosis, interstitial infilammatory infiltrates, predominance of eosinophils
EMG: profuse fibrillation potentials
(p. 1415)
Trichinosis
Treatment for Trichinosis
No treatment is required in most cases.
If with severe cases: thabendazole, predinisone or albendazole
Weakness, wasting, myalgia, failure of other organs, increased CK
focal infammation where parasitic pseudocyst ruptures
Toxoplasmosis
Treatment for Toxoplasmosis (p. 1415)
Sulfadiazine with Pyrimethamine or trisulfapyramide
Parasitic infection wherein there is dramatic pseudohypertrophy of calf muscles (p. 1415)
cystecircosis
HIV treatment with myopathy as side effect (p. 1416)
Zidovudine
Pattern of weakness in early HIV patients (p. 1416)
painless wekaness of girdle and proxima limb muscles
Elevated CK
EMG: fibrillations, brief polyphasic motor units, complex repetitive discharges
Pathologic findings in Zidovudine- induced myopathy (p. 1416)
Presence of ragged red fibers
representative example of inflammatory myopathy
painbless weakness of the proximal limb muscles
ocular muscles are rarely affected
muscles are not tender
dermatologic findings:localized or diffuse erythema, maculopapular eruption, scaling eczematoid dermatitis, exfoliative dermatitis (p. 1417)
Dermatomyositis
Dermatologic findings in dermatomyositis (p. 1417)
Gottron papules
- red, raised, papules on the elbows, knuckles and distal and proximal IPjoints
Heliotrope rash
Shawl sign
Other physical findings in dermatomyositis (p. 1418)
periarticular and subcutatneous calcifications
Reynaud phenomenon
Also check in patients with polymyositis (p. 1418)
Cardiac abnormalities
Interstitial lung disease with anti- Jo
Carcinoma (lung and colon in men; breast and ovarian in women)
Gait in pediatric patients with dermatomyositis (p. 1418)
tiptoe gait because of the contractures of flexors of the ankles
Specific antibodies in severe, necrotizing inflammatory myositis (p. 1419)
SRP (cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein complex)
Mi-2 (nuclear helicase)
anti tRNA synthetase (p. 1419)
anti-Jo
EMG findings in DM and PM (p. 1420)
polyphasic units that simulate denervation- reinnervation changes, juxtaposed with myopathic motor units
DM vs PM pathological findings (p. 1420)
DM- perifascicular muscle fiber atrophy
PM- scattered
Inflammatory infiltrates
DM- perimysial connective tissue
PM- endomysium
Principal changes in idiopathic PM (p. 1420)
widespread destruction of segments of muscle fibers with an inflammatory reaction
phagocytosis of muscle fibers by mononuclear cells and infiltration with a varying number of lymphocytes and lesser numbers of other mononuclear and plasma cells
DM vs PM re etiology and pathogenesis (p. 1421)
PM- large number of activated T cells, mainly CD8 class whereas B cells are sparse
DM- the percentage of B cells at all sites is significantly higher than it is in PM
Treatment for DM or PM (p. 1421)
prednisone 1mg/kg
acute or severe cases: MPPT 1g IV each day for 3 -5 days
Prognosis of DM or PM (p. 1422)
Good
extent of recovery depends on acuteness and severity of the disease
steadily progressive, painless, muscular weakness and modest atrophy usually distal in the arms and both proximal in the legs (p. 1422)
Inclusion Body Myositis
Contrast DM and IBM (p. 1422)
The deltoids are spared and the thumb flexors are weak in IBM (opposite to PM and and DM)
IBM vs ALS (p. 14223)
the EMG changes are restricted to the weakend muscles
Denominative finding in IBM (p. 1423)
intracytoplasmic, subsarcolemmal vacuoles, eosinophilic inclusions
Cystosolic antibodies found 2/3 of patietns with IBM (p. 1423)
anti-cN1
Treatment of IBM (p. 1423)
difficult; not responded in any consistent fashion to treatment with corticosteroids
Antibody directed to the signaling of TGF-b has shown the improvement of muscle mass; but no definitive clinical effect yet.
Bimagrumab
Features that virtually exclude myositis (p. 1424)
- lack of reduced peak power of contraction
2. normal EMG, serum enzymes and muscle biopsy
In eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, severe eosinophilia and myalgia were found following the ingestion of which amino acid? (p. 1425)
L- tryptophan
dystrophy with rapid progressive course X linked recessive almost exclusively in amles symptoms show before learning to walk greatly elevated CK waddling gait
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Muscles that are large in DMD (p. 1427)
gastrocnemii
lateral vasti
deltoids
Waddling gait in DMD is due to (p. 1427)
weakness of gluteus medius
Posture of DMD (p. 1427)
lumbar lordosis
hip flexion and abduction
knee flexion
plantar flexion
ECG findings in DMD (p. 1427)
prominent Rwaves in R prevordial leads and deep Q waves in L precordial and limb leads
EMG findings in DMD (p. 1427)
fibrillations, positive wavesw, low- amplitude and brief polyphasic MUP, high frequency discharges