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Severe hypothyroidism can present as isolated myopathy mimicking postpolio syndrome in childhood polio survivors.
Hypothyroid myopathy can rarely present as the sole manifestation of autoimmune thyroiditis and mimic postpolio syndrome.
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Consider hypothyroidism in postpolio myopathy; hypothesis-generating case extends known presentations but should not yet change practice.
Hypothyroidism can have diverse neurological manifestations. Myopathy may rarely be the sole manifestation of autoimmune thyroiditis. We hereby report an atypical manifestation of severe hypothyroidism in a middle-aged woman with childhood onset of paralytic polio involving her right leg presenting with a recent onset of increased weakness in the right leg mimicking postpolio syndrome.
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Verma et al. (2012) studied this question. Severe hypothyroidism can present as an isolated myopathy mimicking postpolio syndrome in patients with a history of childhood paralytic polio.
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