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postpoliomyelitis syndrome (medicine)


postpoliomyelitis syndrome
<syndrome> A "postpolio" syndrome characterised by new neuromuscular symptoms, including muscle weakness, that develops years after recovery from poliomyelitis. The symptoms may vary from simple nonprogressive deterioration of function, with joint pain, fatigue, and subsequent stabilization, to atypical forms of spinal muscular dystrophy. The new, slowly progressive muscle weakness may occur in muscles that were previously affected by polio and recovered or in muscles that were clinically unaffected by the acute disease.