What Is Flaccid Paralysis?
Acute flaccid paralysis cases are also called AFP cases. All cases with symptoms of acute flaccid paralysis under 15 years of age, and cases of clinical diagnosis of polio at any age are considered AFP cases.
Acute flaccid paralysis
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- nickname
- AFP cases
- TCM disease name
- Acute flaccid paralysis
- Common symptoms
- Acute onset, weakened muscle tone, decreased muscle strength
- High-risk AFP cases
- Younger than 5 years
- Acute flaccid paralysis cases are also called AFP cases. All cases with symptoms of acute flaccid paralysis under 15 years of age, and cases of clinical diagnosis of polio at any age are considered AFP cases.
- Acute onset, weakened muscle tone, decreased muscle strength, weakened or disappeared tendon reflexes.
- Cases include
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- AFP cases are classified according to the virological classification criteria recommended by WHO.
- Provincial expert diagnostic teams based on polio laboratory test results, combined with epidemiological and clinical data to diagnose and classify AFP cases (with photos, AFP case classification flowchart).
- 1. Poliovirus confirmed cases: AFP cases that are positive for poliovirus are confirmed poliovirus cases.
- 2. VDPV cases: VDPV was isolated from stool samples, and after examination by the provincial expert diagnosis team, clinical cases of polio diagnosis could not be ruled out.
- 3 Polio excluded cases: Those with one of the following conditions.
- (1) In cases where qualified stool samples were collected and no poliovirus and VDPV were detected;
- (2) No specimens or qualified specimens, no poliovirus and VDPV detected, no matter whether there is residual paralysis / or death or lost follow-up at 60-day follow-up, the provincial expert diagnosis team will review and clinically exclude cases diagnosed with polio .
- 4 Polio clinically eligible cases: no specimens or qualified specimens, no wild poliovirus and VDPV detected, and no residual paralysis / or death or lost follow-up at 60-day follow-up, reviewed by the provincial expert diagnostic team, the spine cannot be ruled out clinically Gray-diagnosed cases.