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Journal of Pediatric Critical Care, 2015 Acute flaccid paralysis is an emergency and includes a variety of diagnostic possibilities. Identification of life threatening problems and emergency stabilization should precede further diagnostic evaluation.
Muliai Baalaaji, Muralidharan Jayashree
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Prognosis of West Nile virus associated acute flaccid paralysis: a case series [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011 Introduction Little is known about the long-term health related quality of life outcomes in patients with West Nile virus associated acute flaccid paralysis.
Drebot Michael A +6 more
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Cryptococcal meningoradiculitis presenting with acute flaccid paralysis [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2021 Chee Yik Chang
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Acute flaccid paralysis due to multifactorial hyperkalaemia. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2023 A male patient in his late 30s with a history of Lynch syndrome and colorectal cancer relapse, which recently started chemotherapy, was admitted to the emergency department with acute lower limb weakness that had progressed to all limbs and resulted in complete flaccid paresis with general areflexia.
Rodrigues RA +3 more
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Clinical and diagnostic characteristics of patients with suspected polyneuropathy [PDF]
Саратовский научно-медицинский журнал, 2013 Objective: to study the causes and clinical manifestations of disease in children referred for hospitalization in children infectious diseases hospital in Saratov with a diagnosis of «acute flaccid paralysis».
Mikhailova Е.V. +4 more
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Acute flaccid paralysis of a new surfer [PDF]
Medicine, 2022 . Rationale:. Surfer's myelopathy is a rare atraumatic spinal cord injury most frequently experienced by novice surfers. Patients often experience back pain, followed by motor, sensory, bowel, and bladder involvement.
Yee Leng Loh, MD, MRCP(Lon) +3 more
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Evaluation of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system in the River Nile State - Northern Sudan, 2021 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background One of the four main elements of the worldwide polio eradication strategy is acute flaccid paralysis surveillance (AFP). This system is based on (acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases reported and tested at World Health Organization (WHO ...
Alhaj Saad Mohamed Ahmed Ali +5 more
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Molecular Epidemiology of Enterovirus A71 in Surveillance of Acute Flaccid Paralysis Cases in Senegal, 2013–2020 [PDF]
Vaccines, 2022 Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is a non-polio enterovirus that currently represents a major public health concern worldwide. In Africa, only sporadic cases have been reported.
Ndack Ndiaye +9 more
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Acute Flaccid paralysis in adults: Our experience
Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2014 Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a complex clinical syndrome with a broad array of potential etiologies that vary with age. We present our experience of acute onset lower motor neuron paralysis.
Rupesh Kaushik +4 more
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Acute flaccid paralysis in an infant
Journal of Current Research in Scientific Medicine, 2022 The incidence rate of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in India was 12/100,000 people, whereas it is 0.71/million in the United States. The incidence of nonpolio AFM has increased over the years.[1] We present a young infant with a 3-day fever followed by ...
Antonieo Jude Raja Balraj +3 more
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