ataxia
Let an agent explain ataxia and its types, relay causes, assessment and general management from neurology sources, describe the forms the registry aliases name including the veterinary sense, and distinguish ataxia from weakness, dizziness, tremor and apraxia, routing sudden onset to emergency care.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain ataxia and its types, relay causes, assessment and general management from neurology sources, describe the forms the registry aliases name including the veterinary sense, and distinguish ataxia from weakness, dizziness, tremor and apraxia, routing sudden onset to emergency care.
Loss of coordination of voluntary movement not due to muscle weakness, a neurological sign affecting gait, limbs, speech or eye movements, arising from damage to the cerebellum, sensory pathways or vestibular system, with forms and causes including gait ataxia, sudden-onset ataxia that can signal stroke or intoxication, gluten ataxia linked to coeliac disease, optic ataxia affecting visually guided reaching, inherited ataxias such as the syndrome of ataxia, deafness and cardiomyopathy, and enzootic ataxia, a copper-deficiency disease of lambs. Sudden ataxia needs emergency assessment. The model routes people to clinicians.
What it is for: Not applicable; a neurological sign.
It can be explain the sign and types; relay causes and assessment; route emergencies and care; distinguish related signs.
Distinguishing features
Incoordination
Not weakness
Many causes
Human and veterinary senses
What it looks like
Not a visible object; an unsteady, wide-based gait or clumsy movements.
Physical character
main types: cerebellar, sensory, vestibular list
Friedreich ataxia prevalence: about 1 in 50000 note - Europe
enzootic ataxia cause: copper deficiency in ewes note - veterinary
How it is recognised
Incoordination of voluntary movement
Gait ataxia, sudden ataxia, gluten ataxia, optic ataxia, ataxia with deafness and cardiomyopathy, enzootic ataxia of lambs
Weakness is loss of strength; dizziness is a sensation; tremor is oscillation; apraxia is loss of learned movement
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
often arises from - damage
is contrasted with - loss of learned movement
In practice
Families and kinds
cerebellar ataxia
sensory ataxia
vestibular ataxia
hereditary ataxias such as Friedreich and spinocerebellar ataxias
acquired ataxias such as gluten ataxia and toxic causes
optic ataxia
enzootic ataxia in animals
Identifiers
ICD-10 R27.0 ataxia, unspecified
MeSH D001259 Ataxia
Standards and regulation
Neurology guidelines for ataxia assessment
Veterinary guidance on copper supplementation
Failure modes and hazards
Missing stroke or intoxication in sudden ataxia
Agents giving personal medical advice
Registry aliases mixing human and veterinary conditions
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.ataxia
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What ataxia is.
Clinical.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is ataxia, and how does it differ from weakness, dizziness, tremor and apraxia? definition
- Is there sudden new incoordination, which needs emergency services now, or a longer-standing problem needing a clinician? boundary
Forms
Forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What are gait, sudden, gluten, optic and hereditary ataxias, and enzootic ataxia in lambs? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
Causes Causes.
Clinical.
Acquired
Acquired causes.
Acquired
Acquired.
- What acquired causes exist, such as stroke, alcohol, vitamin deficiency and autoimmune disease? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Inherited
Inherited ataxias.
Inherited
Inherited.
- What are the inherited ataxias, and how are they diagnosed genetically? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Care Assessment and support.
Clinical.
Assessment
Assessment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How do clinicians examine and investigate ataxia, in general terms? provenance
- Which entry fits neurological examination? action
Support
Therapy and support.
Support
Support.
- What therapies and patient organisations help people with ataxia? provenance
- Which entry fits Ataxia UK or similar organisations? action
Context Veterinary and research.
Context.
Veterinary
Enzootic ataxia.
Veterinary
Veterinary.
- What is enzootic ataxia or swayback in lambs, and how is it prevented, as veterinary sources describe? provenance
- Which entry fits copper deficiency in livestock? action
Research
Research.
Research
Research.
- What treatments are being researched, such as for Friedreich ataxia? provenance
- Which entry fits Friedreich ataxia? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should hereditary ataxias and enzootic ataxia be separate primary entries?
- How should neurology and veterinary sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged human and veterinary aliases; should they be split off?