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MUSCLE & NERVE
Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 140-163Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20304
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acute quadriplegic myopathy; critical illness myopathy; critical illness polyneuropathy; sepsis; systemic inflammatory response syndrome
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Critical illness, more precisely defined as the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), occurs in 20%-50% of patients who have been on mechanical ventilation for more than 1 week in an intensive care unit. Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and myopathy (CIM), singly or in combination, occur commonly in these patients and present as limb weakness and difficulty in weaning from the ventilator. Critical illness myopathy can be subdivided into thick-filament (myosin) loss, cachectic myopathy, acute rhabdomyolysis, and acute necrotizing myopathy of intensive care. SIRS is the predominant underlying factor in CIP and is likely a factor in CIM even though the effects of neuromuscular blocking agents and steroids predominate in CIM. Identification and characterization of the polyneuropathy and myopathy depend upon neurological examination, electrophysiological studies, measurement of serum creatine kinase, and, if features suggest a myopathy, muscle biopsy. The information is valuable in deciding treatment and prognosis.
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