ABSTRACT Mediastinal masses can be challenging to the surgical team and anesthetic considerations vary according location, pathology, approach, patient comorbidities. We report case of a 21 cm symptomatic intrathoracic teratoma in postpartum with history poliomyelitis. Significant challenges were presented for induction, potential extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, use neuraxial pain techniqu...

A virus has been recovered from the feces of two children having symptoms similar to those of poliomyelitis. The virus is pathogenic for suckling mice and hamsters but not for rhesus monkeys. It induces striking lesions in the skeletal muscles of the experimental animal but not in the central nervous system. Other viruses inducing similar signs and lesions in suckling mice have been isolated fr...

Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), other than paralytic poliomyelitis, are usually due to demyelination like Guillian Barre syndrome (GBS), transverse myelitis and traumatic neuritis. Poliomyelitis like illness, Hopkins syndrome or Post Asthmatic Amotrophy, associated with bronchial asthma and hyperIgEemia has been reported in literature. We present a two and a half year old child who developed AFP...

The cerebral type of poliomyelitis, although described by Parsons and Barling (1933), is now seldom reported. The occurrence of this variant of the disease in infants seems to be excessively rare. All forms of poliomyelitis are, indeed, uncommon in early infancy (Mouton, Smillie, and Bower, 1950). This paper describes three infants, all probably infected from a common source, in whom the diseas...