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== Introduction | == Introduction == | ||
Dropped head syndrome (DHS) is a rare condition characterized by severe weakness of neck extensors and may associate with weakness of shoulder girdle and proximal arm muscles. This occurs as a result of several neurological, neuromuscular, muscular, and other causes<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16622566/</ref>. | |||
=== Neurological conditions that may lead to DHS include; === | |||
** amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), | |||
** Parkinson disease | |||
** multiple system atrophy, | |||
** cervical dystonia, | |||
** postpolio syndrome, | |||
** cervical myelopathy, | |||
** chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy (CIDP), | |||
** neuromuscular causes include myasthenia gravis (MG), | |||
** Lambert-Eaton myasthenia syndrome (LEMS), | |||
** muscular causes include primary inflammatory such as polymyositis, | |||
** Scleromyositis, | |||
** isolated inflammatory axial myopathy, | |||
** primary non-inflammatory conditions (nemaline myopathy, mitochondrial myopathy, and congenital myopathy) | |||
** isolated neck extensor myopathy (INEM).<ref>https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/6763751#sec1-1</ref> | |||
Revision as of 08:26, 8 September 2020
Original Editor - Eugenie Lamprecht
Top Contributors - Eugenie Lamprecht and Kim Jackson
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Dropped head syndrome (DHS) is a rare condition characterized by severe weakness of neck extensors and may associate with weakness of shoulder girdle and proximal arm muscles. This occurs as a result of several neurological, neuromuscular, muscular, and other causes[1].
Neurological conditions that may lead to DHS include;[edit | edit source]
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
- Parkinson disease
- multiple system atrophy,
- cervical dystonia,
- postpolio syndrome,
- cervical myelopathy,
- chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy (CIDP),
- neuromuscular causes include myasthenia gravis (MG),
- Lambert-Eaton myasthenia syndrome (LEMS),
- muscular causes include primary inflammatory such as polymyositis,
- Scleromyositis,
- isolated inflammatory axial myopathy,
- primary non-inflammatory conditions (nemaline myopathy, mitochondrial myopathy, and congenital myopathy)
- isolated neck extensor myopathy (INEM).[2]
