Differential diagnosis and therapy of paresis in infectious diseases

• During many infections, paralysis can occur in various muscle groups.
• Paresis in infectious diseases occurs:
  • During the acute phase of the disease - Cerebral palsy, coxsackie, and ECHO viruses
  • They develop a fever first - tick-borne encephalitis, parainfectious encephalitis
  • It is the first symptom in the absence of fever - botulism, polyradiculoneuritis
  • In early or late convalescence- diphtheria

• Sometimes it is directly related to motor impairment (cerebral palsy, botulism).
• In other cases, it has an immunopathogenic basis (polyradiculoneuritis).

• The prognosis depends on the type of structures affected and the type of change:

1. bulbar and ascending forms have a worse prognosis
2. permanent damage occurs during the destruction of neurons

References

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