Late postpoliomyelitis muscular atrophy: a case report and clinical discussion.
Late postpoliomyelitis muscular atrophy (PPMA), a condition afflicting those who contracted poliomyelitis before the discovery of the vaccines in the 1950s, is a pathology that has only recently been described. A brief case report of a late PPMA patient is followed by a discussion of the etiology of the condition. Diagnostic and differential diagnostic considerations are presented, along with treatment goals and treatment paradigms.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors