ALLMedicine™ Acute Poliomyelitis Center

Jul 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Acute poliomyelitis is a disease of the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem caused by poliovirus. Flaccid asymmetrical weakness and muscle atrophy are the hallmarks of its clinical manifestations, due ...

Jul 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Acute poliomyelitis is a disease of the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem caused by poliovirus. Flaccid asymmetrical weakness and muscle atrophy are the hallmarks of its clinical manifestations, due ...

Jul 13th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Acute poliomyelitis is a disease of the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and brain stem caused by poliovirus. Flaccid asymmetrical weakness and muscle atrophy are the hallmarks of its clinical manifestations, due ...

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...

Jul 21st, 2020 - Background Poliomyelitis is first known to have occurred nearly 6000 years ago, as evidenced by the withered and deformed limbs of certain Egyptian mummies. Polio was epidemic in the United States and the world in the 20th century, especially in t...

May 15th, 2020 - Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a neurological disease that affects polio survivors at least 15 years after the initial polio infection. The description of PPS is attributed to Jean-Martin Charcot in 1875 but was only widely recognized in the early 1...

May 15th, 2019 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello and welcome. I'm Dr George Lundberg and this is At Large at Medscape.* Many of you may know that I had the great privilege of being the editor-in-chief of JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical...

Jun 25th, 2013 - UPDATED June 25, 2013 — The Japanese government withdrew its recommendation to use human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines in girls last week, citing concerns from the public about adverse effects, according to news reports. The announcement is in sta...

Jun 25th, 2013 - UPDATED June 25, 2013 — The Japanese government withdrew its recommendation to use human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines in girls last week, citing concerns from the public about adverse effects, according to news reports. The announcement is in sta...

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.