Carmen Yea, Ari Bitnun, Joan Robinson, Aleksandra Mineyko, Michelle Barton, Jean K Mah, Jiri Vajsar, Susan Richardson, Christoph Licht, Jason Brophy, Megan Crone, Shalini Desai, Juliette Hukin, Kevin Jones, Katherine Muir, Jeffrey M Pernica, Robert Pless, Daniela Pohl, Mubeen F Rafay, Kathryn Selby, Sunita Venkateswaran, Geneviève Bernard, E Ann Yeh
We describe the presenting features and long-term outcome of an unusual cluster of pediatric acute flaccid paralysis cases that occurred in Canada during the 2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak. Children (n = 25; median age 7.8 years) presenting to Canadian centers between July 1 and October 31, 2014, and who met diagnostic criteria for acute flaccid paralysis were evaluated retrospectively. The predominant presenting features included prodromal respiratory illness (n = 22), cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytic pleocytosis (n = 18), pain in neck/back (n = 14) and extremities (n = 10), bowel/bladder dysfunction (n = 9), focal central gray matter lesions found in all regions of the spinal cord within the cohort (n = 16), brain stem lesions (n = 8), and bulbar symptoms (n = 5)...
March 2017: Journal of Child Neurology