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Acute flaccid myelitis a review of the literature [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare neurological disorder that first rose to national attention in 2014. This neurological disorder has a biennial presentation with every other even year being a peak year.
Darina Dinov, Jeffrey R. Donowitz
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J Educ Teach Emerg Med, 2022 Emergency medicine residents and medical students on emergency medicine rotation.Although a somewhat rare disease, acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) can cause death, and for those pediatric patients that survive, less than 10% have full recovery.1 A cluster of cases that resembled polio was first described in California in 2012.2 After 120 cases of the ...
Zappa D, Herman LL.
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Acute flaccid myelitis in a polio-like syndrome [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020 Ronaldo Gonçalves Pereira +2 more
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2016 Investigators from the University School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, report an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) occurring in 2014-2015 in several States and reported to the CDC.
J. Gordon Millichap
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2021 Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is an incompletely understood neurologic disorder occurring in epidemic fashion causing weakness ranging from mild paresis to devastating paralysis in children and some adults. This article reviews the case definition of AFM as well as its epidemiology and association with enteroviral infection.
William, Ide +2 more
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Using the Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System to Identify Cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Australia, 2000‒2018 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Since 2012, the United States has reported a distinct syndrome of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) with anterior myelitis, predominantly in children. This polio-like syndrome was termed acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).
Liz J. Walker +5 more
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Scoliosis in Pediatric Patients With Acute Flaccid Myelitis. [PDF]
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2022 Background: Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is an anterior horn disorder that manifests as rapid onset muscle weakness or paralysis. Development of scoliosis in pediatric AFM patients has been anecdotally reported, but associated risk factors or incidence have yet to be determined.
Suresh KV +4 more
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CMAJ, 2018 From January to November 2018, there were 90 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis in the United States and 48 suspected cases in Canada.1,2 Injury to the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord causes abrupt-onset limb weakness, pain, paresthesias and areflexia.3 About 25% of patients ...
Gill PJ, Bitnun A, Yeh EA.
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis in COVID-19. [PDF]
BJR Case Rep, 2020 Spinal cord imaging findings in COVID-19 are evolving with the increasing frequency of neurological symptoms among COVID-19 patients. Several mechanisms are postulated to be the cause of central nervous system affection including direct virus neuroinvasive potential, post infectious secondary immunogenic hyperreaction, hypercoagulability, sepsis and ...
Abdelhady M, Elsotouhy A, Vattoth S.
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Acute flaccid myelitis: cause, diagnosis, and management. [PDF]
Lancet, 2021 Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a disabling, polio-like illness mainly affecting children. Outbreaks of AFM have occurred across multiple global regions since 2012, and the disease appears to be caused by non-polio enterovirus infection, posing a major public health challenge.
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