Definition
Adinamia is a state characterized by a noticeable loss or lack of muscular strength, which involves no movement or reaction, reduced physical efficiency and prostration.
This symptom can be attributed to pathological conditions of various kinds, affecting different organs and systems.
Adinamia is observed mainly in cases of febrile infectious diseases (eg typhoid fever), malignant neoplasms, endocrinopathies (diabetes, hypothyroidism and Addison's disease), acute or chronic poisoning, diseases of the nervous system (eg multiple sclerosis), blood disorders (eg autoimmune hemolytic anemia) and cardiopathies with significant haemodynamic repercussions. Moreover, it can be found in case of heart and respiratory, hepatic and renal insufficiencies.
Certain psychiatric disorders also cause adynamia.
Unlike asthenia (a state of general weakness), adinamy is a mainly muscular phenomenon. However, these two symptoms are often concomitant.Possible Causes * of Adinamia
- Anemia
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
- Diabetes
- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
- Heart failure
- Kidney failure
- Respiratory failure
- Hypothyroidism
- Addison's disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Heart failure
- Spherocytosis
- Fibromyalgia syndrome
- Typhus
