aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
The common cause is viral infection with Coxsackie virus.
Other causes:
- infective:
- viral e.g. influenza
- bacterial e.g. diphtheria
- protozoal e.g. Chagas disease
- metabolic:
- pregnancy
- thyroid disease
- thiamine deficiency
- thyroid disease
- amyloidosis
- connective tissue disease:
- SLE
- rheumatoid arthritis
- infiltrative sarcoidosis and leukaemia
- neuromuscular:
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- drugs:
- aresenic
- alcohol
- phenothiazines
- radiation