Key result
Acute flaccid paralysis requires identifying specific etiologies for accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Why the study?
Knowledge and understanding of the etiologies of acute flaccid paralysis are necessary for differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment, and as an indicator of polio eradication.
Knowledge of the etiologies of Acute Flaccid Paralysis is necessary for differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) is a syndrome characterized by a diffuse, acute muscular weakness that develops with hypotonia and deep or abolished hypoactive reflexes. Literature review of the last five years in the databases Pubmed, Scopus, Embase, and Web of Science. Data were collected from epidemiological studies using the keywords. AFP includes heterogeneous diseases, variable clinical presentation, and correlated with a specific etiology. The differential diagnosis of acute flaccid paralysis includes spinal cord diseases, acute polyneuropathies, myoneural plaque dysfunction, and muscle disease. PFAs represents a set of disorders used by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an indicator of polio eradication. Therefore, the knowledge and understanding of the respective etiologies are necessary to make their differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
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Raposo et al. (2019) conducted a review in Acute Flaccid Paralysis. Acute Flaccid Paralysis encompasses heterogeneous diseases requiring understanding of specific etiologies for accurate differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment.
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