Book contents
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Case 1 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Case 2 Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
- Case 3 Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA)
- Case 4 Segmental Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Case 5 Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA; Kennedy Disease)
- Case 6 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1
- Case 7 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 3
- Case 8 Postpolio Syndrome (PPS); Poliomyelitis Anterior Acuta, West Nile Virus Poliomyelitis, Acute Flaccid Weakness in Children
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Case 8 - Postpolio Syndrome (PPS); Poliomyelitis Anterior Acuta, West Nile Virus Poliomyelitis, Acute Flaccid Weakness in Children
from Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: aN Invalid Date NaN
- Neuromuscular Disease: A Case-Based Approach
- Neuromuscular Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface to 2nd Edition
- Part I Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with a Neuromuscular Disorder
- Part II Neuromuscular Cases
- Disorders of the Anterior Horn Cell
- Case 1 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Case 2 Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
- Case 3 Progressive Muscular Atrophy (PMA)
- Case 4 Segmental Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Case 5 Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA; Kennedy Disease)
- Case 6 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1
- Case 7 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 3
- Case 8 Postpolio Syndrome (PPS); Poliomyelitis Anterior Acuta, West Nile Virus Poliomyelitis, Acute Flaccid Weakness in Children
- Peripheral Neuropathies
- Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction
- Myopathies
- Video legends
- Index
- References
Summary
A 63-year-old woman was referred because of decreased strength of her right leg manifesting with buckling of the knee for the past five years. Sometimes this led to falls, which made her feel insecure while walking. She experienced some aching in her right heel and in her right knee after long walks. She was able to walk for two hours. She and her husband loved to walk in the mountains, and during those hikes she used a cane. The previous history is relevant because at age 5 years she had suffered from poliomyelitis anterior acuta, which had affected both legs. She had a partial recovery in the sense that she regained normal strength of her left leg and was left with residual weakness of her right leg. She underwent surgery at age 10 years (ankle arthrodesis on the right and epiphysiodesis of the left leg).
Keywords
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Neuromuscular DiseaseA Case-Based Approach, pp. 91 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024