 Paralysis
"Paralysis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A general term most often used to describe severe or complete loss of muscle strength due to motor system disease from the level of the cerebral cortex to the muscle fiber. This term may also occasionally refer to a loss of sensory function. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p45)
| Descriptor ID |
D010243
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.622 C23.888.592.636
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| Concept/Terms |
Paralysis- Paralysis
- Paralyses
- Plegia
- Plegias
- Palsy
- Palsies
Todd Paralysis- Todd Paralysis
- Paralysis, Todd
- Todd's Paralysis
- Paralysis, Todd's
- Todds Paralysis
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paralysis" by people in Profiles.
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Fall A, Ndiaye N, Messacar K, Kebe O, Jallow MM, Harouna H, Kiori DE, Sy S, Goudiaby D, Dia M, Niang MN, Ndiaye K, Dia N. Enterovirus D68 Subclade B3 in Children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis in West Africa, 2016. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 09; 26(9):2227-2230.
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Hixon AM, Clarke P, Tyler KL. Contemporary Circulating Enterovirus D68 Strains Infect and Undergo Retrograde Axonal Transport in Spinal Motor Neurons Independent of Sialic Acid. J Virol. 2019 08 15; 93(16).
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Jackson ML, Yu O, Nelson JC, Nordin JD, Tartof SY, Klein NP, Donahue JG, Irving SA, Glanz JM, McNeil MM, Jackson LA. Safety of repeated doses of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine in adults and adolescents. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2018 08; 27(8):921-925.
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Messacar K, Asturias EJ, Hixon AM, Van Leer-Buter C, Niesters HGM, Tyler KL, Abzug MJ, Dominguez SR. Enterovirus D68 and acute flaccid myelitis-evaluating the evidence for causality. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 08; 18(8):e239-e247.
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Hixon AM, Clarke P, Tyler KL. Evaluating Treatment Efficacy in a Mouse Model of Enterovirus D68-Associated Paralytic Myelitis. J Infect Dis. 2017 12 05; 216(10):1245-1253.
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Messacar K, Abzug MJ, Dominguez SR. The changing epidemiology of acute flaccid paralysis warrants a paradigm shift in surveillance. J Med Virol. 2018 01; 90(1):1-2.
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Shaw J, Halsey NA, Weinberg A, Scott Schmid D, George KS, Weldon WC, Jordan M, Bryant PW, LaRussa PS, Bradshaw DY, Harrington T, Gershon A. Arm Paralysis After Routine Childhood Vaccinations: Application of Advanced Molecular Methods to the Causality Assessment of an Adverse Event After Immunization. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2017 Sep 01; 6(3):e161-e164.
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Mitchell JJ, Chen C, Liechti DJ, Heare A, Chahla J, Bravman JT. Axillary Nerve Palsy and Deltoid Muscle Atony. JBJS Rev. 2017 07; 5(7):e1.
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Akbik F, Matiello M, Piquet A, Cho T, Cohen A, Venna N. Bibrachial plegia due to Lyme radiculopoliomyelitis-myelitis. J Neurol Sci. 2017 Jul 15; 378:1-2.
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Hixon AM, Yu G, Leser JS, Yagi S, Clarke P, Chiu CY, Tyler KL. A mouse model of paralytic myelitis caused by enterovirus D68. PLoS Pathog. 2017 02; 13(2):e1006199.
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