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Acute infantile weakness: A case of vaccine-associated poliomyelitis

✍ Scribed by William S. David; John J. Doyle

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 168 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-639X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199706)20:6<747::aid-mus14>3.0.co;2-r

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✦ Synopsis

Acute generalized weakness is an unusual occur-areflexia. There was minimal movement of the limbs with relative sparing of the left leg. The infant blinked rence in infants. The neuromuscular causes of acute infantile hypotonia include selected myopathies, bot-sparsely and did not smile. There was no ptosis. Extraocular movements, pupillary size, and reactivity re-ulism, familial infantile myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre ´syndrome (GBS), and poliomyelitis. mained normal. Apneic periods prompted intubation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain Electrophysiologic (EMG) studies are valuable in documenting the presence of a peripheral nervous revealed findings similar to those of the CT. Creatine kinase and serum immunoglobulin measurements system (PNS) disorder, and can further assist in differentiating among the above possibilities.

were normal. Stool cultures were negative for Campylobacter. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) serologies were negative. Subsequently, urine culture grew

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