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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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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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Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2004 Poliomyelitis is an acute viral infection caused by RNA virus. It is primarily an infection of the human alimentary tract but the virus may infect the central nervous system in a very small percentage (1%) of cases resulting in varying degrees of paralysis, and possibly death [1].
Sunil, Agrawal, Harinder, Singh
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Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2018 In respond to acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in association with Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) infection, Taiwan Centers for Disease Control began to screen EV-D68 infection among each AFP patient since July 2015 and detected the first case in August 2016 ...
Hsin-Yi Wei +4 more
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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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Acute flaccid paralysis in Australian children
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2003 Objectives: To describe the epidemiology and causes of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in Australian children, and the clinical features of the two most common causes of AFP, Guillain−Barré syndrome and transverse myelitis.Methods: Monthly active surveillance for AFP was carried out through the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, with AFP defined ...
Elizabeth Elliott, J Antony
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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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Acute flaccid paralysis secondary to severe hyperkalaemia. [PDF]
Oxf Med Case ReportsAbstract Acute Flaccid paralysis is a rare presentation of severe hyperkalaemia, described rarely in the literature. We report a case of flaccid paralysis, including cranial nerve involvement, secondary to hyperkalaemia in a patient presenting to A&E. Initial ECG showed signs of severe hyperkalaemia and lab results confirmed.
Hadfield G, Harrison M.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthObjective: Detections of acute flaccid paralysis in the Australian Capital Territory in the last decade have been lower than the target rate for polio surveillance.
Sarah E. Alland +8 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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