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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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Acute flaccid myelitis in Switzerland – association with enterovirus D68 [PDF]

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023
Poliomyelitis-like acute flaccid myelitis associated with enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has emerged globally during the past decade. Here we describe the first documented case reported from Switzerland, and a second, suspected case occurring in temporal ...
Sandra  Bigi, Alban  Ramette, Maria Teresa Barbani, Andreas Bieri, Angelika Hoffmann, Christoph Aebi   +5 more
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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.
Murphy OC, Messacar K, Benson L, Bove R, Carpenter JL, Crawford T, Dean J, DeBiasi R, Desai J, Elrick MJ, Farias-Moeller R, Gombolay GY, Greenberg B, Harmelink M, Hong S, Hopkins SE, Oleszek J, Otten C, Sadowsky CL, Schreiner TL, Thakur KT, Van Haren K, Carballo CM, Chong PF, Fall A, Gowda VK, Helfferich J, Kira R, Lim M, Lopez EL, Wells EM, Yeh EA, Pardo CA, AFM working group.   +33 more
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Clinical Approach to Pediatric Transverse Myelitis, Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and Acute Flaccid Myelitis [PDF]

Children, 2019
Pediatric transverse myelitis (TM) is an acquired, immune-mediated disorder that leads to injury of the spinal cord and often manifests as weakness, numbness, bowel dysfunction, and/or bladder dysfunction. Multiple etiologies for myelitis can result in a
Cynthia Wang, Benjamin Greenberg
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Pediatric acute flaccid myelitis: Evaluation of diagnostic criteria and differentiation from other causes of acute flaccid paralysis [PDF]

European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 2023
BACKGROUND Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is characterized by rapidly progressive limb weakness with low muscle tone. It has a broad differential diagnosis, which includes acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a rare polio-like condition that mainly affects young
Erik H. Niks, Rinze F Neuteboom, Hilde M H Braakman   +2 more
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Nerve Transfers for Treatment of Upper Extremity Paralysis in Acute Flaccid Myelitis. [PDF]

Hand (N Y)
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare, debilitating neurological disease resulting in pure motor deficits in school-aged children. Unfortunately, 90% of patients do not experience complete spontaneous recovery, and medical therapy has not proven ...
Ramamurthi A, Patel MR, Lucero M, Cohen-Shohet R, Hettinger P.   +4 more
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Surveillance for Acute Flaccid Myelitis - United States, 2018-2022. [PDF]

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a serious neurologic condition primarily affecting children; AFM can cause acute respiratory failure and permanent paralysis.
Whitehouse ER, Lopez A, English R, Getachew H, Ng TFF, Emery B, Rogers S, Kidd S.   +7 more
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Acute flaccid myelitis: not uncommon in rural Uganda? [PDF]

Brain Commun, 2023
Acute Flaccid Myelitis is a paralytic illness with significant similarities to poliomyelitis, and which affects predominantly children. It was first fully delineated only in 2014 in the USA, occurring in epidemic clusters with a likely overall increasing
Olum S, Scolding C, Omona V, Jackson K, Scolding N.   +4 more
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Enterovirus D68 Infection in Children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Colorado, USA, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
During August 8, 2014–October 14, 2014, a total of 11 children with acute flaccid myelitis and distinctive neuroimaging changes were identified near Denver, Colorado, USA.
Negar Aliabadi, Kevin Messacar, Daniel M. Pastula, Christine C. Robinson, Eyal Leshem, James Sejvar, W. Allan Nix, M. Steven Oberste, Daniel R. Feikin, Samuel R. Dominguez   +9 more
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Telaprevir Treatment Reduces Paralysis in a Mouse Model of Enterovirus D68 Acute Flaccid Myelitis. [PDF]

J Virol, 2023
Recent outbreaks of EV-D68 in 2014, 2016, and 2018 have resulted in over 600 cases of a paralytic illness that is known as AFM. AFM is a predominantly pediatric disease with no FDA-approved treatment, and many patients show minimal recovery from limb ...
Frost J, Rudy MJ, Leser JS, Tan H, Hu Y, Wang J, Clarke P, Tyler KL.   +7 more
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