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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Weakness, Acute, Emergent
• Demyelinating disorders (Guillain-Barré, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [CIDP])
• Infectious (poliomyelitis, diphtheria)
• Metabolic (acquired or familial hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia, hypermagnesemia)
• Metals poisoning (arsenic, thallium)
• Myasthenia gravis
• Porphyria
• Toxic (botulism, tick paralysis, paralytic shellfish toxin, puffer
fish, newts)
• Demyelinating disorders (Guillain-Barré, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [CIDP])
• Infectious (poliomyelitis, diphtheria)
• Metabolic (acquired or familial hypokalemia, hypophosphatemia, hypermagnesemia)
• Metals poisoning (arsenic, thallium)
• Myasthenia gravis
• Porphyria
• Toxic (botulism, tick paralysis, paralytic shellfish toxin, puffer
fish, newts)
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