Neuromuscular hypoventilation

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• Synonyms

  • Mechanical hypoventilation
  • Neuromuscular ventilatory failure
  • Neuromuscular respiratory failure

• Causes

  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Motor neurone disease
  • Myotonic dystrophy
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Poliovirus
  • Glycogen storage disorder type II
  • Scoliosis
  • Kyphosis
  • Congenital muscular dystrophy
  • X-linked tubular myopathy
  • Spinal muscular atrophy

• Effects

  • Orthopnoea

• Parents

  • Hypoventilatory respiratory failure