Concerns regarding acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a debilitating disease, are growing due to the spread of EV-D68, an unusual respiratory virus. Severe paralysis happens on rare occasions, but most ...
1 Department of Neurology, Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital, Sejong, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Neurology, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of Korea ...
An enterovirus variant, EV-D68, can lead to acute flaccid myelitis, which can cause weakness or paralysis, typically in kids. “We are detecting EV-D68 nucleic acids in wastewater across the ...
Doctors first identified cases of unexplained muscle weakness and limb paralysis in children, which they called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, in 2014 — though in retrospect, sporadic cases ...
Jon Peterson, Fargo, is an extraordinary husband, father of two girls, and paramedic who was diagnosed with immune-medicated necrotizing myopathy, a rare and debilitating disease that has ...
Some other potential side-effects are meningitis (a condition characterised by inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord), transverse myelitis (spinal cord inflammation) and ...
“In patients with SLE, concurrent NMOSD can manifest with optic neuritis and transverse myelitis,” the researchers wrote in a report that they published in the journal Clinical Case Reports.