Postpoliomyelitic progressive amyotrophy
Mozolevskiĭ, I.V.; Smirnov, I.K.; Tushkanova, M.V.; Dubanova, E.A.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 85(11): 1644-1648
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 4082832 Document Number: 251402
Two clinical cases of post-poliomyelitic progressive amyotrophy (PPA) are described. One patient had serological tests of the blood and cerebrospinal fluid for viruses of poliomyelitis, measles, simple herpes and tick-borne encephalitis which were negative. The authors suggest that PPA develops in patients with a peculiar genetic predisposition and altered homeostasis and is a degenerative-dystrophic disease of the motor nerve.