Acute postasthmatic amyotrophy (Hopkins' syndrome).
Acute postasthmatic amyotrophy is a rare condition, previously reported in only 26 cases. It is characterized by a sudden onset of a flaccid paralysis of an arm or a leg with completely preserved sensibility, about 1 week after an asthmatic attack. The cause is probably due to a lesion of the anterior horn of the spinal cord, but evidence indicates a more widespread pathological process. The etiology is unknown, but infectious or immunological mechanisms are likely.
Liedholm
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Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Eeg-Olofsson
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Ekenberg
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Nicolaysen
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Torbergsen
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D000200:Action Potentials; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D004576:Electromyography; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009123:Muscle Hypotonia; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D010243:Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome