What are the causes of diaphragm paralysis?

Question

I know one of the causes is damage to the phrenic nerve, after heart surgery. Are there any other causes?

P.S. I am a nursing student.

Answer 1

Diaphragm Paralysis is the loss of control of one or both hemidiaphragms caused by a traumatic injury or disease process which decreases or terminates the impulse of respiratory stimuli originating in the brain. Causes of diaphragm paralysis include, but are not limited to:

    * Central neurological disorders such as a brain or brainstem stroke,

    * Spinal cord disorders such as syringomyelia or poliomyelitis,

    * Direct trauma to the phrenic nerve from surgery, radiation, or tumor,

    * Autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis,

    * Demyelinating disease processes such as Guillan-Barré syndrome and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease),

    * Phrenic nerve neuropathy, viral or bacterial infections, and unknown (ie, idiopathic) etiologies.

Answer 2

Ignore Jervy ... he is uneducated ....

Franz has the complete info for you ...

Good luck on your nursing career ....

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http://www.emedicine.com/Med/topic554.ht...

Answer 3

why did you take nursing? its like, wasting your knowledge, please. If you are a filipino I understand your case

the diaphragm is a muscle, and muscle paralysis MAY be caused by damage at a certain part of the spinal cord. Can't remember what part of it.