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Patients who contracted paralytic poliomyelitis decades ago are now developing new symptoms and experiencing a recurrence of their childhood symptoms, known as postpolio syndrome.
Highlights the emergence of postpolio syndrome in patients who contracted paralytic poliomyelitis decades ago.
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Supports consideration of postpolio syndrome in aging polio survivors; leaves open prospective studies on management.
Although polio is often considered a disease of the past, new symptoms are appearing in patients infected with the polio virus many years ago. Many patients who contracted a paralytic form of poliomyelitis 3, 4, or even 7 decades ago are now relieving their childhood symptoms in what is known as postpolio syndrome.
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Tillett et al. (1999) studied this question. Patients who contracted paralytic poliomyelitis decades ago are now developing new symptoms and experiencing a recurrence of their childhood symptoms, known as postpolio syndrome.
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