Post-poliomyelitis syndrome: case report.

نویسندگان

  • Marco Antonio Orsini Neves
  • Mariana Pimentel de Mello
  • Viviane Vieira dos Santos
  • Osvaldo J M Nascimento
  • Reny de Souza Antonioli
  • Gabriel Rodrigues de Freitas
  • Marcos R G de Freitas
چکیده

The post-polio syndrome (PPS) is an entity characterized for an episode of muscular weakness and/or abnormal muscular fatigue in individuals that had presented acute polio years before. We report the case of PPS in a patient, 40 years, that thirty-five years after had had paralytic poliomyelitis, developed new symptoms of fatigue, muscular atrophy, dyspnea, difficulties in deambulation and muscular and joint pain. The electromyographic findings revealed injuried neurons of the anterior horn of the marrow and reinnervation after muscular tests.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

دوره 65 2B  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007