PMID: 11932857Apr 5, 2002Paper

Long-term follow-up of patients with nonparalytic poliomyelitis

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
T RekandJ A Aarli

Abstract

To examine patients with previous nonparalytic poliomyelitis in search of muscle atrophy, weakness, and other late symptoms of poliomyelitis. A mailed questionnaire followed up with neurologic and neurophysiologic examinations of respondents who reported symptoms possibly related to the late sequelae of polio. Neurology department at a university hospital. Thirty-nine of 47 patients diagnosed with nonparalytic poliomyelitis and hospitalized at a Norwegian hospital between 1950 and 1954, during the Norwegian polio epidemic. Not applicable. Electromyography to determine function of the anterior tibialis, vastus lateralis, and biceps brachii muscles; nerve conduction studies of the sural, peroneal, and tibial nerves; motor and sensory nerve conduction velocity, and compound muscle and sensory nerve action potentials, and distal latencies. Twenty-five of 47 patients (53.2%) reported symptoms possibly related to the late sequelae of poliomyelitis. Eight of 20 examined symptomatic patients had normal neurologic and neurophysiologic findings, whereas 9 others had other medical conditions that could explain the symptoms. Three patients (6.7%) had neurologic and neurophysiologic findings and development of symptoms consistent with moton...Continue Reading

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Jan 30, 2013·Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis & Frontotemporal Degeneration·Anne-Marie GuennocPhilippe Corcia
May 3, 2002·European Journal of Neurology : the Official Journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies·E Farbu, N E Gilhus
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