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A 40-year-old patient developed fatigue, muscular atrophy, and pain 35 years after paralytic poliomyelitis, with electromyography showing injured anterior horn neurons and reinnervation.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report describes the clinical and electromyographic presentation of post-poliomyelitis syndrome in a 40-year-old patient.
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Alerts clinicians to post-polio syndrome decades later; leaves open validation of EMG patterns in larger cohorts.
The post-polio syndrome (PPS) is an entity characterized for an episode of muscular weakness and/or abnormal muscular fatigue in individuals that had presented acute polio years before. We report the case of PPS in a patient, 40 years, that thirty-five years after had had paralytic poliomyelitis, developed new symptoms of fatigue, muscular atrophy, dyspnea, difficulties in deambulation and muscular and joint pain. The electromyographic findings revealed injuried neurons of the anterior horn of the marrow and reinnervation after muscular tests.
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Orsini et al. (2007) conducted a case report in Post-poliomyelitis syndrome (n=1). A 40-year-old patient developed fatigue, muscular atrophy, and pain 35 years after paralytic poliomyelitis, with electromyography showing injured anterior horn neurons and reinnervation.
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