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Muscle wasting
Muscle wasting is a clinical finding where one or more muscles have decreased in size due to disuse, inadequate blood supply, or other causes.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
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A 32-year old asked:
What would cause right side muscle wasting?
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A 33-year old asked:
What causes unilateral thigh muscle wasting?
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A 34-year old asked:
Is atrophy the same as muscle wasting?
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A 34-year old asked:
Knee muscle wasting after injury. Is it reversible?
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A 45-year old asked:
How do I prevent muscle wasting after a knee injury?
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A 40-year old asked:
Muscle wasting possible due to ulnar nerve compression?
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A 17-year old female asked about a 40-year old female:
How to cure muscle wasting caused by diabetes type 2?
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A 39-year old asked:
What's the difference between muscle wasting disease or disuse atrophy?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Been taking prednisone for while and have been noticing muscle wasting of certain muscles over others, does this sound about right?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Muscle wasting after "diagnostic" epidural steroid injecton that turned out to be not diagnostic in 23 year old elite collegiate long distance runner?
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A 25-year old female asked:
How often do epidural steroid injections produce prolonged muscle wasting/weakness >10 months?
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A 57-year old female asked:
Is temporalis muscle wasting after craniotomy due to disruption of blood flow (retraction), or to damage to the motor branch of the trigeminal nerve?
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A 31-year old female asked:
What causes muscle wasting of the interossei in both hands and muscle waste on both feet please? Thank you
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A 25-year old female asked:
Without a prior muscle wasting disease in a healthy 23 yr old what reason would account for muscle wasting following epidural steroid inj?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Cut thumb 5 years ago. Still have full motion. Muscle wasting in opponens pollicis. Tingling when pinching something. Is there something to be done?
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A 54-year old male asked:
When Creatinine serum blood level is low 0.6, does this mean Kidney is filtering good. What are muscle wasting symptoms & causes. ?
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A 25-year old female asked:
I'm trying to prove type II fiber muscle wasting. Where could I have a muscle biopsy done and the slides looked under th emiscroscope for apoptotic cells, exploded nuclei/cells of variable siz?
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A male asked:
I have muscle wasting due to peripheral neuropathy. Would steroids and exercise be the answer?
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A male asked:
I am a type 2 diabetic and I have muscle wasting due to peripheral neuropathy. Would steroids and exercise be the answer?
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A 39-year old male asked:
Can muscle wasting make you significantly weaker? I'm finding my physical job much harder after weight loss due to poor nutrition went fr 167 to 150
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A 37-year old asked:
Physical strengh, muscle wasting and cognitive problems after acute respiratory distress synodrome?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Dehydration: sunken eyes, a feeling that the "insides" of the body has pulled in; hypovelemic shock? kidney failure severe muscle wasting - help.
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A 37-year old male asked:
Notice muscle wasting in my adductor pollicis. Had ulna transposition May 2012 muscle coming back very slowly. ? can I inject steroid into adductor?
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A 36-year old asked:
what is the least amount of calories i can consume without muscle protein wasting?
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A 67-year old female asked:
muscle on calf is wasting away and soft lump is developing, what is it and what kind of doctor do I see sbout it?
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A 53-year old male asked:
What is the effective way to build muscle mass in HIV aids wasting?
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A 30-year old male asked:
what can i do to build up my calf muscle after muscle waste from a number of operations?
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A 48-year old male asked:
Is there any muscle dietary supplements that work against cancer or is it a waste of money?
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A 25-year old female asked:
What blood tests would a gastroenterologist order if patient presented with muscle pain, wasting, and tightness secondary to diarrhea ?
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Am i wasting my money buying spirulina?
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