Vasomotor Disturbances in Poliomyelitis, with Special Reference to Treatment with Paravertebral Sympathetic Block

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POLIOMYELITIS in adults can no longer be considered unusual. Lewin1 states that the incidence is definitely increasing in the older age groups. At the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, a center for poliomyelitis patients, 131 cases in military personnel were studied. Practically all the cases were convalescent — that is, the acute symptoms had subsided and the patients were observed prior to the end of the two-year interval arbitrarily set as the convalescent period.In a review of these cases vasomotor and sudomotor disturbances frequently appeared in the extremities. These changes formed an important part of the . . .

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