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unusual facts about muscle weakness



Neuromyelitis optica

In 1894, Eugène Devic and his PhD student Fernand Gault described 16 patients who had lost vision in one or both eyes and within weeks developed severe spastic weakness of the limbs, loss of sensation and often bladder control.


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Ernst Leberecht Wagner

With Heinrich Unverricht (1853–1912), the eponymous "Wagner-Unverricht syndrome" is named, which is a muscle disease related to polymyositis, characterized by chronic muscle inflammation that results in muscle weakness and skin rash.

VIPoma

Lethargy, muscle weakness, nausea, vomiting and crampy abdominal pain are frequent symptoms.