[Post-polio syndrome - a case report].
Post-polio syndrome occurs 30-40 years after polio virus infection. The main symptoms of PPS are slowly progressive muscle limbs paresis with muscle atrophy, joints pain, paresthesia. In 90% of patients the main symptom is fatigue that leads to physical and mental activity deterioration. The cause of disease remains unknown. Probably it is an effect of motoneurons damage during acute virus polio infection, their overloading and degeneration of remaining ones. In this study we described a case of man who developed PPS 36 years after Heine-Medin disease. The main symptom was intensification of right limb paresis and muscle atrophy. In electromyography there were damage features of muscle clinically affected and unaffected. Changes in lifestyle made possible to continue occupational activity.
Department of Neurology, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland.
Żanna
Ż
Pastuszak
Department of Neurology, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland.
Kazimierz
K
Tomczykiewicz
Department of Neurology, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland.
Adam
A
Stępień
D004576:Electromyography; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000209:etiology; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000150:complications; D016262:Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
Heine-Medin disease; chronic fatigue syndrome; electromyography; post-polio syndrome