INTRODUCTION Little is known about the long-term health related quality of life outcomes in patients with West Nile virus associated acute flaccid paralysis. We describe the quality of life scores of seven patients with acute flaccid paralysis who presented to hospital between 2003 and 2006, and were followed for up to two years. CASE PRESENTATIONS Between 2003 and 2006, 157 symptomatic patie...

Severe hypokalemia can have life-threatening complications such as significant muscle weakness, ileus, rhabdomyolysis, and respiratory failure. Here, we report a case of 33-year-old male who presented with worsening lower extremity weakness falls after smoking marijuana for six months. Initial labs showed severe hypokalemia. EKG was remarkable first-degree AV block, widened QRS complex, ST segm...

OBJECTIVE Survivors of severe critical illness frequently develop substantial and persistent physical complications, including muscle weakness, impaired physical function, and decreased health-related quality of life. Our objective was to determine the longitudinal epidemiology of muscle weakness, physical function, and health-related quality of life and their associations with critical illness...

BACKGROUND Diseases that cause acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) often progress rapidly, thus may cause life threatening complications, therefore, their diagnosis and cure are important. This study was carried out to investigate the causes of acute generalized weakness in children referred to Amirkola Children's Hospital, in Babol, Iran. METHODS In this case series, the epidemiological causes of ...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute peripheral neuropathy that develops as a result of post-infectious immune-mediated nerve injury. It can be classified into classic and variant GBS. Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) is a subtype of GBS with the key clinical features of pure motor weakness, areflexia, absence of sensory symptoms, and lack of neurophysiologic evidence of demyelination....

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is a disease globally that affects acute ischemic stroke patient ability to survive from adversity. Self-management needed determine the readiness of patients with recover physical weakness during COVID-19. Objective: To describe case resilience in conveying for enhancing self-health management Clinical observation: An evaluation was about accept health acute...

OBJECTIVES This review article aimed to present a clinical approach, emphasizing the diagnostic investigation, to children and adolescents who present in the emergency room with acute-onset muscle weakness. SOURCES A systematic search was performed in PubMed database during April and May 2017, using the following search terms in various combinations: "acute," "weakness," "motor deficit," "fla...