CLINICAL AND ETIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF ACUTE FLACCID PARALYSIS IN CHILDREN

Objective: This study was conducted to determine the clinical characteristics and differential diagnosis of individual cases acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) reporting tertiary care teaching hospital Jaipur. Methods: prospective observational among patients attending outdoor, indoor, neurology clinics with provisional AFP. The based on available data, vaccination status, laboratory results (stool examination, arterial blood gas analysis, thyroid profile, serum electrolytes, electrophysiological studies, cerebrospinal fluid urinary pH, imaging). Results: A total 60 were evaluated over a duration 1 year. About 81.7% male. Most common presenting complaint lower-limb weakness (100%). None identified as poliomyelitis or polio-compatible. Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) most cause non-poliovirus AFP (75%). nerve conduction velocity findings in our bilateral motor axonal affection peroneal (55%). Conclusion: GBS all age groups. No case diagnosed poliomyelitis. All had progressive muscle roughly symmetrical distribution, areflexia lower limbs.