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Muscle flaccidity

MedGen UID:
10131
Concept ID:
C0026825
Sign or Symptom
Synonyms: Flaccid Muscle Tone; Flaccidity, Muscle; Flaccidity, Muscular; Muscle Flaccidity; Muscle Tone, Flaccid; Muscular Flaccidities; Muscular Flaccidity
SNOMED CT: Flaccidity (397488002); Muscular flaccidity (186611004); Flaccid muscle (186611004); Flaccidity of muscle (186611004); Floppy muscle (186611004)
 
HPO: HP:0010547

Definition

A type of paralysis in which a muscle becomes soft and yields to passive stretching, which results from loss of all or practically all peripheral motor nerves that innervated the muscle. Muscle tone is reduced and the affected muscles undergo extreme atrophy within months of the loss of innervation. [from HPO]

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CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVMuscle flaccidity

Conditions with this feature

Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome 6 (hepatocerebral type)
MedGen UID:
338045
Concept ID:
C1850406
Disease or Syndrome
MPV17-related mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) maintenance defect presents in the vast majority of affected individuals as an early-onset encephalohepatopathic (hepatocerebral) disease that is typically associated with mtDNA depletion, particularly in the liver. A later-onset neuromyopathic disease characterized by myopathy and neuropathy, and associated with multiple mtDNA deletions in muscle, has also rarely been described. MPV17-related mtDNA maintenance defect, encephalohepatopathic form is characterized by: Hepatic manifestations (liver dysfunction that typically progresses to liver failure, cholestasis, hepatomegaly, and steatosis); Neurologic involvement (developmental delay, hypotonia, microcephaly, and motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy); Gastrointestinal manifestations (gastrointestinal dysmotility, feeding difficulties, and failure to thrive); and Metabolic derangements (lactic acidosis and hypoglycemia). Less frequent manifestations include renal tubulopathy, nephrocalcinosis, and hypoparathyroidism. Progressive liver disease often leads to death in infancy or early childhood. Hepatocellular carcinoma has been reported.

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PubMed

Matarasso A, Matarasso SL, Brandt FS, Bellman B
Plast Reconstr Surg 1999 Feb;103(2):645-52; discussion 653-5. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199902000-00043. PMID: 9950556

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Etiology

Arzel-Hézode M, McGoey S, Sternberg D, Vicart S, Eymard B, Fontaine B
Neuromuscul Disord 2009 Mar;19(3):217-9. Epub 2009 Feb 7 doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.12.008. PMID: 19201608
Matarasso A, Matarasso SL, Brandt FS, Bellman B
Plast Reconstr Surg 1999 Feb;103(2):645-52; discussion 653-5. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199902000-00043. PMID: 9950556
Matarasso A, Matarasso SL
Dermatol Surg 1997 Dec;23(12):1151-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.1997.tb00465.x. PMID: 9426659
Faghri PD, Rodgers MM, Glaser RM, Bors JG, Ho C, Akuthota P
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1994 Jan;75(1):73-9. PMID: 8291967
Vacanti CA, Silbert BS, Vacanti FX
J Clin Anesth 1991 Sep-Oct;3(5):395-8. doi: 10.1016/0952-8180(91)90183-n. PMID: 1931065

Diagnosis

van Lieshout ECC, Boonzaier J, Pel AJ, van Heijningen CL, Vink JJ, Visser-Meily JMA, van Tilborg GAF, Dijkhuizen RM
Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2021 May;35(5):457-467. Epub 2021 Apr 7 doi: 10.1177/15459683211005022. PMID: 33825580Free PMC Article
Parker-Pitts CK, Weymouth CW, Frawley MT
J Emerg Med 2020 Apr;58(4):616-619. Epub 2020 Mar 20 doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2019.12.031. PMID: 32204996
Rappaport M, Maloney JR, Ortega H, Fetzer D, Hall K
Clin Electroencephalogr 1985 Oct;16(4):183-91. doi: 10.1177/155005948501600404. PMID: 4075533

Therapy

Arzel-Hézode M, McGoey S, Sternberg D, Vicart S, Eymard B, Fontaine B
Neuromuscul Disord 2009 Mar;19(3):217-9. Epub 2009 Feb 7 doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.12.008. PMID: 19201608
Matarasso A, Matarasso SL, Brandt FS, Bellman B
Plast Reconstr Surg 1999 Feb;103(2):645-52; discussion 653-5. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199902000-00043. PMID: 9950556
Stephens BG, Baselt RC
J Anal Toxicol 1994 Oct;18(6):357-8. doi: 10.1093/jat/18.6.357. PMID: 7823545
Fisher RS, Kaplan PW, Krumholz A, Lesser RP, Rosen SA, Wolff MR
Clin Neuropharmacol 1988 Dec;11(6):537-44. doi: 10.1097/00002826-198812000-00007. PMID: 3148367
Coleman JW, Yao FY, Jalandoni SR, Artusio JF, McGovern JH
Urology 1981 Mar;17(3):265-7. doi: 10.1016/0090-4295(81)90045-5. PMID: 7010759

Prognosis

van Lieshout ECC, Boonzaier J, Pel AJ, van Heijningen CL, Vink JJ, Visser-Meily JMA, van Tilborg GAF, Dijkhuizen RM
Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2021 May;35(5):457-467. Epub 2021 Apr 7 doi: 10.1177/15459683211005022. PMID: 33825580Free PMC Article
Rappaport M, Maloney JR, Ortega H, Fetzer D, Hall K
Clin Electroencephalogr 1985 Oct;16(4):183-91. doi: 10.1177/155005948501600404. PMID: 4075533

Clinical prediction guides

van Lieshout ECC, Boonzaier J, Pel AJ, van Heijningen CL, Vink JJ, Visser-Meily JMA, van Tilborg GAF, Dijkhuizen RM
Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2021 May;35(5):457-467. Epub 2021 Apr 7 doi: 10.1177/15459683211005022. PMID: 33825580Free PMC Article
Vacanti CA, Silbert BS, Vacanti FX
J Clin Anesth 1991 Sep-Oct;3(5):395-8. doi: 10.1016/0952-8180(91)90183-n. PMID: 1931065
Rappaport M, Maloney JR, Ortega H, Fetzer D, Hall K
Clin Electroencephalogr 1985 Oct;16(4):183-91. doi: 10.1177/155005948501600404. PMID: 4075533

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