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A syndrome characterized by new neuromuscular symptoms that occur at least 15 years after clinical stability has been attained in patients with a prior history of symptomatic poliomyelitis. Clinical features include new muscular weakness and atrophy of the limbs, bulbar innervated musculature, and muscles of respiration, combined with excessive fatigue, joint pain, and reduced stamina. The process is marked by slow progression and periods of stabilization. (From Ann NY Acad Sci 1995 May 25;753:68-80)
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- Muscular Atrophy, Postpoliomyelitis
- Post-Polio Syndrome
- Post-Poliomyelitis Muscular Atrophy
- Post-Poliomyelitis Syndrome
- Postpoliomyelitis Muscular Atrophy
- Muscular Atrophies, Post-Poliomyelitis
- Muscular Atrophies, Postpoliomyelitis
- Muscular Atrophy, Post-Poliomyelitis
- Post Poliomyelitis Muscular Atrophy
- Post Poliomyelitis Syndrome
- Post-Polio Syndromes
- Post-Poliomyelitis Muscular Atrophies
- Postpoliomyelitis Muscular Atrophies
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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1991
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- Poliomyelitis/complications (1983-1990)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016262. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016262
- Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-polio_syndrome
- Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220188