ALLMedicine™ Acute Poliomyelitis Center

Jun 28th, 2021 - Acute poliomyelitis is now extremely rare in the United States. Worldwide there are still sporadic outbreaks, which are typically treated with acute inoculation programs. Although polio has effectively been eradicated, the full scope of the diseas...

Jun 25th, 2020 - Objective: While osteoporotic fractures are reported in up to 40% of adults with post-poliomyelitis syndrome (PPS), clinical guidelines regarding bone mineral density (BMD) and indications for treatment are scarce. We investigated the characterist...

May 15th, 2020 - Mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) is a murine betacoronavirus (m-CoV) that causes a wide range of diseases in mice and rats, including hepatitis, enteritis, respiratory diseases, and encephalomyelitis in the central nervous system (CNS). MHV infection i...

Oct 30th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Acute poliomyelitis is a disease of the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem caused by poliovirus. Flaccid asymmetric weakness and muscle atrophy are the hallmarks of its clinical manifestations, due to...

Oct 30th, 2019 - Practice Essentials Acute poliomyelitis is a disease of the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem caused by poliovirus. Flaccid asymmetric weakness and muscle atrophy are the hallmarks of its clinical manifestations, due to...

Nov 14th, 2007 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that the historical comparison in this study reinforces the benefits of immunization. Note that the reductions in disease rates and disease-specific death rates were high for most recommended vaccines. ...

VAIL, COLO. — Tick paralysis is often misdiagnosed—with potentially dire consequences—as one of the other diseases that cause an acute ascending paralysis with preserved mental status.

VAIL, Colo. - Tick paralysis is often misdiagnosed - with potentially dire consequences - as one of the other diseases that cause an acute ascending paralysis with preserved mental status.

VAIL, COLO. — Tick paralysis is often misdiagnosed — with potentially dire consequences — as one of the other diseases that cause an acute ascending paralysis with preserved mental status.