Nocturnal Hypoventilation as a Respiratory Complication of Acute Flaccid Myelitis

Razina Aziz-Bose; Sumit Bhargava; MyMy Buu; Riley Bove; Keith van Haren

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.032

Nocturnal Hypoventilation as a Respiratory Complication of Acute Flaccid Myelitis

J Pediatr. 2022 Sep:248:122-125. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.032. Epub 2022 May 20.

Authors

Razina Aziz-Bose¹, Sumit Bhargava², MyMy Buu², Riley Bove³, Keith van Haren⁴

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
² Division of Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
³ Department of Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
⁴ Division of Child Neurology, Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Electronic address: kpv@stanford.edu.

PMID: 35605645
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.05.032

Abstract

Detailed accounts of long-term respiratory complications among children with acute flaccid myelitis have not been reported systematically. We describe respiratory complications and outcomes in a single-center cohort of 19 children with acute flaccid myelitis. Significantly, 3 of the 19 children had a prolonged course of nocturnal hypoventilation that required intervention.

Keywords: acute flaccid myelitis; nocturnal central hypoventilation; respiratory complications.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Central Nervous System Viral Diseases
Child
Enterovirus D, Human*
Enterovirus Infections*
Humans
Hypoventilation / complications
Hypoventilation / etiology
Myelitis* / diagnosis
Myelitis* / etiology
Neuromuscular Diseases* / complications

Supplementary concepts

acute flaccid myelitis