Key result
Potentially treatable factors may be implicated in late functional deterioration after acute paralytic poliomyelitis and should be excluded before diagnosing progressive post-polio muscular atrophy.
Clinicians should exclude potentially treatable factors before attributing late functional deterioration in polio survivors to progressive post-polio muscular atrophy.
Requires ruling out treatable causes before post-polio atrophy diagnosis; leaves open need for prospective validation studies.
1996 is polio awareness year. This paper reviews the clinical syndrome of acute paralytic poliomyelitis and its sequelae. We discuss epidemiological studies of the syndrome of late functional deterioration many years after the acute infection and the current hypotheses of the pathophysiology of such disorders. Recent evidence has suggested that potentially treatable factors may be implicated in the majority of such patients and it is therefore important to exclude such disorders before attributing late functional deterioration to progressive post-polio muscular atrophy.
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Kidd et al. (1996) conducted a review in Acute paralytic poliomyelitis and its sequelae. Potentially treatable factors may be implicated in late functional deterioration after acute paralytic poliomyelitis and should be excluded before diagnosing progressive post-polio muscular atrophy.
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