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NEUROPATHIES, MYOPATHIES NEUROPATHIES (7) Inflammatory Infectious Hereditary (HMSN-I) HMSN-II, HMSN-III Acquired Toxic/Metabolic Traumatic Neoplasms MYOPATHIES (9) Denervation Dystrophies Ion Channel Congenital Genetic Metabolic Inflammatory Toxic NeuroMuscular Junction Neoplasms www.freelivedoctor.com
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GENERAL Reactions NERVE DEMYELINATION (segmental) AXONAL DEGENERATION NERVE REGENERATION REINNERVATION MUSCLE FIBER NECROSIS VACUOLIZATION REGENERATION ATROPHY HYPERTROPHY www.freelivedoctor.com
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NEUROPATHIES, MYOPATHIES NEUROPATHIES (7) Inflammatory Infectious Hereditary (HMSN-I) HMSN-II, HMSN-III Acquired Toxic/Metabolic Traumatic Neoplasms MYOPATHIES (9) Denervation Dystrophies Ion Channel Congenital Genetic Metabolic Inflammatory Toxic NeuroMuscular Junction Neoplasms www.freelivedoctor.com
NEUROPATHY , Inflammatory Guillain-Barr é Preceded by “influenza”-like illness NO actual specific etiologic agent isolated, autoimmume disease to myelin gangliosides most likely Inflammation of a peripheral nerve DEMYELINATION “ ASCENDING” paralysis www.freelivedoctor.com
Guillain-Barr é, (AIDP),  A cute   I nflammatory   D emyelinating   P olyneuropathy www.freelivedoctor.com
NEUROPATHY , Infectious Leprosy Diphtheria V/Z (Varicella-Zoster) www.freelivedoctor.com
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N E U R O T O X I N C. DIPHTHERIAE www.freelivedoctor.com
Z O S T E R POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA ZOSTER in DRG www.freelivedoctor.com
NEUROPATHY , Hereditary (defective myelination) ( H ereditary  M otor and  S ensory  N europathy) HMSN-I (Charcot-Marie-Tooth) HMSN-II (Like CMT of the neurons) HMSN-III (Palpable Nerves) (aka, Dejerine-Sottas) www.freelivedoctor.com
PES CAVUM(S),  in CMT www.freelivedoctor.com
NEUROPATHY , Toxic/Metabolic Symmetric, Asymmetric Sensory, Sensorimotor Somatic, Autonomic Focal, Multifocal www.freelivedoctor.com
NEUROPATHY , Toxic/Metabolic Diabetes Mellitus Vitamin Deficiencies (many Bs, E) Heavy Metals, Pb, As, etc. Organic Compounds CHEMO www.freelivedoctor.com
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NEUROPATHY , Traumatic Laceration Avulsion Carpal Tunnel Traumatic (amputation) “Neuroma” “ Saturday Night” Palsy Morton “Neuroma” www.freelivedoctor.com
TRAUMATIC NEUROMA “ Regenerating Axons and Glia (Schwann Cells), but with no direction” www.freelivedoctor.com
MORTON’S NEUROMA Traumatic Compression F>M Interdigital Intermetatarsal MEDIAL Plantar Nerve 3 rd  COMMON digital branch www.freelivedoctor.com
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NEUROPATHY , Neoplastic Benign: Schwannoma Malignant: Malignant Schwannoma www.freelivedoctor.com
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Antoni  A : “Palisaded”  Antoni  B : NON-Palisaded www.freelivedoctor.com
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MYOPATHY , Denervation MUSCLE FIBERS  CANNOT  SURVIVE UNLESS THEY ARE INNERVATED PERIPHERAL NERVE PATHOLOGY ANTERIOR HORN CELL PATHOLOGY www.freelivedoctor.com
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S PINAL  M USCULAR  A TROPHY Childhood diseases Chromosome #5 that harbors the survival motor neuron gene ( SMN1 )   Anterior Horn Cells Often PAN-fascicular More peripheral muscles www.freelivedoctor.com
MYOPATHY , “Dystrophic” Jerry’s kids, no “DYSTROPHIN” DUCHENNE (DMD), x-linked BECKER (BMD) (less common, less severe, same chromosome) Many others also, all of which have complex genetic patterns which have all been precisely defined MYOTONIA is a common feature www.freelivedoctor.com
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www.freelivedoctor.com Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies Inheritance Locus Gene Clinicopathologic Features 1A Autosomal-dominant 5q31 Myotilin Onset in adult life with slow progression of limb weakness, but sparing of facial muscles; dysarthric speech 1B Autosomal-dominant 1q21 Lamin A/C Onset before the age of 20 years in lower limbs, progression during many years with cardiac involvement 1C Autosomal-dominant 3p25 Caveolin-3 (M-caveolin) Onset before the age of 20, clinically similar to type 1B 1D Autosomal-dominant 7p Unknown Limb girdle muscle weakness, adult onset 2A Autosomal-recessive 15q15.1-21.1 Calpain 3 Onset in late childhood to middle age; slow progression during 20–30 years 2B Autosomal-recessive 2p13.3-q13.1 Dysferlin Mild clinical course with onset in early adulthood 2C Autosomal-recessive 13q12 γ-Sarcoglycan Severe weakness during childhood, rapid progression; dystrophic myopathy on muscle biopsy 2D Autosomal-recessive 17q21 α-Sarcoglycan (adhalin) Severe weakness during childhood, rapid progression; dystrophic myopathy on muscle biopsy 2E Autosomal-recessive 4q12 β-Sarcoglycan Onset in early childhood, with Duchenne-like clinical course 2F Autosomal-recessive 5q33 δ-Sarcoglycan Early onset and severe myopathy; dystrophic myopathy on muscle biopsy 2G Autosomal-recessive 17q11-q12 Telethonin Distal weakness with limb-girdle weakness in late childhood to adulthood; rimmed vacuoles in muscle cells 2H Autosomal-recessive 9q31-q34.1 Tripartite motif-containing protein 32 (TRIM32) Limb-girdle and facial weakness with onset in childhood, mild, slowly progressive course
MYOPATHY , Ion Channel “Channelopathies” MYOTONIA/HYPOTONIC PARALYSIS FAMILIAL, (genetic) DISEASES TRIGGERED BY: Exercise Cold Carb Intake Classified by K+,  ↑ K+,  ↓ K+ MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA can be triggered off by anesthetic halogenated inhalation agents in some of these patients!!! www.freelivedoctor.com
MYOPATHY , Congenital “Floppy Babies” HYPOTONIC FAMILIAL, (genetic) DISEASES MANY TYPES, in most of which the precise genetic defects have been identified www.freelivedoctor.com
MYOPATHY , Metabolic (genetic also) LIPID Mitoch. Enz. Def.   LIPID ACCUMULATION MITOCHONDRIAL “ PARKING LOT ” mitochondria www.freelivedoctor.com
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MYOPATHY , Inflammatory DERMATOMYOSITIS POLYMYOSITIS INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS ALL HAVE UNCLEAR ETIOLOGIES www.freelivedoctor.com
DERMATOMYOSITIS (often peri-vascular) www.freelivedoctor.com
POLYMYOSITIS, usually  endo- myseal www.freelivedoctor.com
INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS, “rimmed” vacuole www.freelivedoctor.com
MYOPATHY , Toxic THYROTOXICOSIS ETHANOL DRUGS ( steroids , chloroquine) DRUGS ( MANY   MANY  others) www.freelivedoctor.com
MYOPATHY ,  NeuroMuscular Junction Myasthenia Gravis Associated with thymomas Thymectomies often useful Rx: AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, CLEARLY Ab’s to ANTI-CHOLINESTERASE RECEPTORS Anticholinesterase test is very diagnostic YOUNG WOMEN WITH EYE MUSCLE: Ptosis   Diplopia  General Weakness Lambert-Eaton Syndrome  (paraneoplastic) www.freelivedoctor.com
MYOPATHY , Neoplastic Benign Rhabdomyoma Malignant Rhabdomyosarcoma www.freelivedoctor.com

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Editor's Notes

  • #4 LONGITUDINAL H&E section of a peripheral myelinated nerve
  • #5 TRANSVERSE H&E section of a peripheral myelinated nerve
  • #6 SILVER STAIN showing black axons surrounded by washed out fat (myelin)
  • #7 MYELIN stain showing the REVERSE of the previous slide
  • #8 Medium sized nerve, transverse section, showing a finite number of myelinated axons and schwann cells
  • #9 How many axons are in this nerve section? Perhaps around 20?
  • #10 Classical neurovascular “triad”: Artery, Vein, Nerve
  • #11 Smaller neurovascular triad, or “bundle”. How many axons are in this small nerve? Perhaps 5-8?
  • #12 The more longitudinally a nerve happens to be sectioned, the more “wavy” it appears.
  • #13 Electron microscope section, peripheral nerve. How many axons are myelinated? Perhaps about 7?
  • #14 Please differentiate between microtubules (small circles) and neurofilaments (dots). Find the schwann cell nucleus, find an UNmyelinated axon, find a mitochondrion.
  • #15 Note that the myelin “layering” has to start (INNER mesaxon) and end (OUTER mesaxon) somewhere!
  • #16 It looks like one micrometer (micron) would span about 60 layers of myelin? True or false?
  • #17 Slam dunk classical appearance of skeletal muscle. Why is skeletal muscle or voluntary striated muscle a better name for this than just striated muscle?
  • #18 Is the peripheral nature of skeletal muscle nuclei more apparent from cross or longitudinal sections? Ans: Cross Why? Ans: Simple geometry! Are striations better seen on cross or longitudinal sections? Ans: Longitudinal Why? Ans: Simple geometry again!
  • #19 EM, skeletal muscle, the sarcomere, like America, extends from “Z” to shining “Z”! Find glycogen. Find Mitochondria.
  • #22 Find the sarcoplasmic reticulum, which is the endoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle. Find MYOSIN filaments, find ACTIN.
  • #23 These are NONSPECIFIC reactions of nerve and skeletal muscle to injury
  • #24 Extremely important concepts of nerve demyelinization, axonal damage, and regeneration
  • #26 Muscle fiber necrosis
  • #27 Muscle fiber vacuolization
  • #28 Muscle fiber hypertrophy/atrophy. Certain fiber hypertrophy to make up for the loss of atrophic fibers
  • #34 Why is auto-amputation common in severe leprosy? Ans: Nerve destructioon
  • #37 CMT is a very HETEROGENEOUS group of hereditary diseases involved with defective myelination, e.g., CMT1, CMT2, CMT3, CMT4, X-linked CMT
  • #38 Peroneal muscle involvement and HIGH arching is common in CMT.
  • #41 BOTH demyelination AND a direct TOXIC effect to peripheral nerves are seen in diabetes, which is the MOST COMMON cause of neuropathy
  • #44 Morton’s Neuromas most commonly occur in the 3 rd common digital branch of the MEDIAL plantar nerve, i.e., 3 rd and 4 th toe at the distal metatarsal level.
  • #47 Schwannoma
  • #51 Hypertrophy/Atrophy scenario
  • #53 What is myotonia?
  • #54 Dystrophin, an intracellular protein, forms an interface between the cytoskeletal proteins and a group of transmembrane proteins
  • #56 Note again the atrophy/hypertrophy scenario
  • #64 Half of dermatomyositis patients also have cancer, many are young adults and therefore there is a juvenile variant. Note the eyelid appearance and eyelid edema.
  • #65 No skin changes, only in adults, no big association with cancer, and the inflammation is ENDOMYSEAL rather than PERIVASCULAR.
  • #66 Very obscure disease, but said to be the most common acquired myopathy in people over the age of 50. Quads and wrist flexors, asymmetrically, is the rule.
  • #69 Exceedingly RARE tumors, you may see, possibly ONE rhabdomyosarcoma in your life, perhapos.