08Diseases of the nervous system Nutritional or toxic disorders of the nervous system 8D44Alcohol-related neurological disorders
8D44.1
category
Alcoholic myopathy
Definition Myopathy secondary to alcohol use and includes acute and chronic alcoholic myopathy. Several forms have been described: acute necrotizing myopathy, acute hypokalaemic myopathy, chronic alcoholic myopathy, asymptomatic alcoholic myopathy, and alcoholic cardiomyopathy.
Also indexed as
Acute alcoholic myopathy Alcoholic myopathy Chronic alcoholic myopathy alcoholic myopathic syndrome alcoholic myositis
Nearby in Alcohol-related neurological disorders
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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