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SAN DIEGO -- The various sets of formal guidelines that physicians use to diagnose post-polio syndrome are inconsistent and misleading, resulting in both false-positive and false-negative diagnoses, concluded researchers from the Post-Polio Syndrome Program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Olavo M. Vasconcelos Jr., M.D., and associates acknowledged the challenge of diagnosing a condition such as post-polio syndrome (PPS) in the absence of specific clinical markers or laboratory assays.
In an attempt to offer reliable diagnostic guidance, various groups, including the March of Dimes and a program of the Easter Seals Society, have developed criteria outlining the symptoms and circumstances that justify a PPS...
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