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...

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) typically causes uncomplicated hand foot and mouth disease in young children. However, a minority of patients may develop neurological complications that include brainstem encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, encephalomyelitis, encephalitis and pulmonary oedema. In the wake of near complete global polio eradication, EV71 has emerged as a significant infectious cause of s...

1 National AIDS Control Programme, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan (Correspondence to F. Mansoor: [email protected]). 2Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. 3 WHO National Surveillance; 5WHO Polio Eradication Initiative, World Health Organization, Islamabad, Pakistan. 4Expanded Programme for Immunization, Islamabad, Pakistan. ABSTRACT We used acute flaccid p...

To achieve poliomyelitis eradication, the World Health Organization recommends that countries conduct surveillance for cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is defined as a sudden onset of paralysis/weakness in any part of the body of a child less than 15 years of age. This syndromic reporting strategy, of investigating all AFP cases rather than just “suspected p...

  Distal renal tubular acidosis is a syndrome of abnormal urine acidification and is characterized by hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia, hypercalciurea, nephrocalcinosis and nephrolithiasis. Despite the presence of persistent hypokalemia, acute muscular paralysis is rarely encountered in males.Here, we will report an eighteen year old male patient who presented with flaccid quadrip...

This study was done to determine the clinical course, cause and outcome of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) in children. All AFP cases (< 15 years) in the children's ward of Khulna Medical College Hospital (Bangladesh) were recorded, investigated and followed up to sixty days as a part of passive surveillance. Main outcome variables were vulnerable age group, vaccine status, predominant limb invol...

the aim of this study was to determine epidemiologic features of acute flaccid paralysis (afp) during 2004-2009 in kermanshah province. this cross-sectional descriptive study was done based on data records from kermanshah health care center. in total 89 patients, 0-14 years old were enrolled study, which 36 of them were male and 53 were female. 50.6% of subjects were diagnosed as guillain-barre...

Introduction: West Nile virus is an RNA virus that was first isolated in a patient in the West Nile province of Uganda 1937 and has since than spread to the Middle East, Europe, and found its way to the United States in 1999 when the first case of West Nile Virus was reported in Queens, NY. From 1999 to 2008, there have been a total of about 29,000 cases of which about 12,000 had neuroinvasive ...