Acute Lower Motor Neuron Tetraparesis

• Autores: Sònia Añor Torres
• Localización: Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice: Small Animal Practice, ISSN-e 0195-5616, Vol. 44, Nº. 6, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Advances in Veterinary Neurology), págs. 1201-1222
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Flaccid nonambulatory tetraparesis or tetraplegia is an infrequent neurologic presentation; it is characteristic of neuromuscular disease (lower motor neuron [LMN] disease) rather than spinal cord disease. Paresis beginning in the pelvic limbs and progressing to the thoracic limbs resulting in flaccid tetraparesis or tetraplegia within 24 to 72 hours is a common presentation of peripheral nerve or neuromuscular junction disease. Complete body flaccidity develops with severe decrease or complete loss of spinal reflexes in pelvic and thoracic limbs. Animals with acute generalized LMN tetraparesis commonly show severe motor dysfunction in all limbs and severe generalized weakness in all muscles.