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  • What is Acute Flaccid Myelitis?
    Health - 7 Feb 2019
    Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) is inflammation of the spinal cord that causes sudden muscle weakness. It is a rare condition and less than a million new cases are recorded annually from all over the...
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis Causes and Diagnosis
    Health - 16 Jan 2019
    Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a medical condition characterized by muscular weakness and myelitis, which is the medical term used to describe inflammation of the spinal cord. It is a rare disease...
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis Treatment
    Health - 15 Jan 2019
    Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) is a rare disease that affects children aged 3 to 15 years. The disease involves inflammation of the spinal cord and leads to serious implications for those affected.
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis Signs and Symptoms
    Health - 13 Nov 2018
    Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) is an inflammatory condition of the spinal cord that causes sudden muscle weakness. It is a rare condition with fewer than a million new patients recorded worldwide every...
  • What Causes Paralysis?
    Health - 4 Nov 2022
    Paralysis is caused by multiple conditions, which may be classified as those which affect the muscles themselves, and those which act indirectly, through the nerves that control muscle action. The...
  • Myelin Demyelination and Dysmyelination
    Health - 21 Jun 2023
    Demyelination is a term used to describe the destruction of a substance called myelin that surrounds axonal fibres. This is caused by diseases that damage the myelin sheath or the cells that form it.
  • Diagnosis of Polio
    Health - 27 May 2023
    Polio is caused by a viral infection. In most cases (95% infections) there are no clinical symptoms and these infections do not need treatment.
  • Neurological Infections
    Health - 3 Jan 2023
    Neurological infections encompass a large variety of conditions that invade and affect the nervous system. Despite advances in therapy and the development of early detection techniques, many of these...
  • Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) - Devic's Disease / Syndrome
    Health - 30 Dec 2022
    Neuromyelitis optica is a condition that involves loss of the myelin sheath (demyelination) that surrounds the optic nerve and spinal cord. The condition is also referred to as Devic's disease /...
  • What is Demyelination?
    Health - 22 Dec 2022
    The term demyelination refers to the loss of the myelin sheath that surrounds and protects axons in the central nervous system.

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