Sleep disorders frequency in post-polio syndrome patients caused by periodic limb movements

Araujo, Maria Auxiliadora de Paiva; Silva, Tatiana Mesquita e; Moreira, Gustavo; Pradella-Hallinan, Márcia; Tufik, Sérgio; Oliveira, Acary Souza Bullé

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“…In the literature on the PM epidemics, however, other symptoms are described during the acute phase: pain, spasms, hypersensibility, and excitability [19,36]. Our study showed that IwHP also late in life experience a variety of symptoms that cannot be attributed to lesions of the anterior horn.…”

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Neurological Symptoms in Danes with a History of Poliomyelitis: Lifelong Follow-Up of Late Symptoms, their Association with Initial Symptoms of Polio, and Presence of Postpolio Syndrome

Kay¹,

Nielsen

Wanscher

et al. 2018

Eur Neurol

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Background: Previous studies suggest that patients with a history of poliomyelitis (PM) later in life experience a variety of symptoms. These studies were carried out in patients who later in life were admitted to hospital or became members of polio societies and may therefore not be representative of all polio patients. Little data have been published concerning patients actually discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of acute paralytic PM. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of late symptoms in individuals with a history of paralytic PM with that of controls, and to study whether late symptoms in individuals with a history of PM were associated with symptoms at the acute stage of polio, and finally to compare the prevalence of symptoms in polio patients with postpolio syndrome (PPS) with the prevalence of symptoms in polio patients without PPS. Methods: A questionnaire concerning various symptoms was sent to a previously established cohort of patients, who during the polio epidemics were discharged from the Department of Infectious Disease at Blegdamshospitalet, Copenhagen, with a diagnosis of paralytic PM, and to age- and gender-matched controls without PM. Information about symptoms at the acute stage of disease was obtained from hospital records. Logistic regression analysis with adjustment for age and gender was applied to compare the occurrence of late symptoms in cases and controls and within the above-mentioned groups of individuals with a history of PM. Results: (i) Compared with controls, individuals with a history of polio significantly more often reported muscle symptoms, pain, neuropathic sensory symptoms, and bulbar symptoms; (ii) the occurrence of symptoms did not seem to be related to symptoms of the initial PM; and (iii) symptom prevalence was significantly higher in individuals with a history of polio who reported PPS as compared with those who did not. Conclusion: Our data indicate that individuals with a history of PM late in life experience a variety of symptoms that cannot be attributed to lesions of the anterior horn. Furthermore, late symptoms do not seem to be related to initial symptoms of the acute stage of PM but to reported PPS. The last finding supports the perception that the cause of PPS is not just normal ageing.

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Neurological Symptoms in Danes with a History of Poliomyelitis: Lifelong Follow-Up of Late Symptoms, their Association with Initial Symptoms of Polio, and Presence of Postpolio Syndrome

Kay¹,

Nielsen

Wanscher

et al. 2018

Eur Neurol

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“…Numerous studies reported the increased frequency of RLS and periodic limb movement of sleep (PLMS) in neurological diseases often associated with fatigue ; however, a limited interest has been devoted to its possible occurrence in PPS. Although sleep disorders, including RLS and PLMS, have been described in PPS patients , there are no previous case−control studies regarding the prevalence of RLS in the PPS population. In fact comorbidity of PSS and RLS was first described in a single patient case report .…”

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Restless legs syndrome and post polio syndrome: a case−control study

Romigi

Pierantozzi

Placidi

et al. 2014

Euro J of Neurology

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“…Viana et al found a circadian trend of fatigue in PPS, but they did not evaluate RLS symptoms or potential association of PLMS with disturbed sleep although they showed pathological PLMS in more than one third of PPS as reported elsewhere (4). Therefore, we conjecture that a circadian variation of fatigue may be related to unrecognized RLS symptoms in PPS previously reported in few PPS cases (3, 5).…”

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Circadian Fatigue or Unrecognized Restless Legs Syndrome? The Post-Polio Syndrome Model

Romigi

Maestri

2014

Front. Neurol.

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Sleep disorders frequency in post-polio syndrome patients caused by periodic limb movements

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Neurological Symptoms in Danes with a History of Poliomyelitis: Lifelong Follow-Up of Late Symptoms, their Association with Initial Symptoms of Polio, and Presence of Postpolio Syndrome

Neurological Symptoms in Danes with a History of Poliomyelitis: Lifelong Follow-Up of Late Symptoms, their Association with Initial Symptoms of Polio, and Presence of Postpolio Syndrome

Restless legs syndrome and post polio syndrome: a case−control study

Circadian Fatigue or Unrecognized Restless Legs Syndrome? The Post-Polio Syndrome Model

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