نتایج جستجو برای: acute flaccid paralysis

تعداد نتایج: 512749  

Journal: :iranian journal of child neurology 0
m. barzegar professor of pediatric neurology tabriz children hospital, tabriz university of medical sciences

objective the guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is characterized by the acute onset of rapidlyprogressive, symmetric muscle  weakness with absent or decreased deep tendon reflexes. gbs is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis in childhood, with an incidence of 0.6-4 per 100 000 population per year. the clinical features are distinct and obtaining patient's history and conducting an exami...

Journal: :iranian journal of child neurology 0
m. jafarzade esfehani associate professor of pediatrics, mashhad university of medical sciences a. jafarzade esfehani general physician j. akhondian associate professor pediatrics neurology, mashhad university of medical sciences

objective to study the clinical presentation, hospital course and outcomes of patients admitted with guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) to three tertiary care hospitals in mashhad, iran. materials and methods the records of all patients admitted with flaccid paralysis between april 1999 and january 2005 were reviewed and those with the diagnosis of gbs were included in the study. standard questionna...

Journal: :Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC 2007
Anis-ur-Rehman Muhammad Idris Manzoor Elahi Jamshed Adeel Arif

BACKGROUND Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) can be caused by a number of conditions. A common preventable cause is poliomyelitis which is still being reported in Pakistan, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), also known as Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, is another common cause of acute flaccid paralysis. It is important to recognize GBS in childhood as parents consider all acute flacci...

Journal: :Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi 2005
R M K Lam T H F Tsang K Y Chan Y L Lau W L Lim T H Lam N K Leung

OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics of patients reported with acute flaccid paralysis between 1997 and 2002, and to evaluate the performance of the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system using indicators recommended by the World Health Organization. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Department of Health, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Children aged younger than 15 years who were re...

Journal: :GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2019

Journal: :The Permanente journal 2003
T Solomon V Ravi

West Nile virus (WNV) is one of the leading causes of insect-borne encephalitis and acute flaccid paralysis in the US. Acute flaccid paralysis is a potentially serious illness, which manifests itself as a Guillain-Barré-like syndrome with generalized weakness and shortness of breath. We report a case involving a patient who presented with acute flaccid paralysis due to WNV infection and was suc...

2003
Bruce R Thorley Kerri Anne Brussen Vicki Stambos

Acute flaccid paralysis is the main clinical manifestation of poliomyelitis. Faecal specimens from cases of acute flaccid paralysis in Australia are referred to the National Poliovirus Reference Laboratory for virus culture to determine if poliovirus is the causative agent. Isolations of poliovirus are tested to determine whether they have characteristics of the Sabin oral polio vaccine virus s...

Journal: :Arquivos De Neuro-psiquiatria 2023

Background: Acute Flaccid Paralysis or polio is a viral infectious disease that affects the motor neurons of central nervous system and can be prevented through vaccination.

2003
James J. Sejvar A. Arturo Leis Dobrivoje S. Stokic Jay A. Van Gerpen Anthony A. Marfin Risa Webb Maryam B. Haddad Bruce C. Tierney Sally A. Slavinski Jo Lynn Polk Victor Dostrow Michael Winkelmann Lyle R. Petersen

Acute weakness associated with West Nile virus (WNV) infection has previously been attributed to a peripheral demyelinating process (Guillain-Barré syndrome); however, the exact etiology of this acute flaccid paralysis has not been systematically assessed. To thoroughly describe the clinical, laboratory, and electrodiagnostic features of this paralysis syndrome, we evaluated acute flaccid paral...

2008
TS Saraswathy

In 1992 surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases was introduced in Malaysia along with the establishment of a national referral laboratory at the Institute for Medical Research. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence, viral etiology and clinical picture of AFP cases below 15 years of age, reported from 2002 to 2007. Six hundred seventy-eight of 688 reported cases ...

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