Sensory abnormality (e.g., pain, numbness, paresthesias)? Muscle cramping or aching? Bowel and/or bladder signs? Ocular involvement (e.g., double imaginative and prescient, droopy eyelids)? Bulbar involvement (e.g., voice change)? What activities/movements do you've got trouble with? Duration or pattern? Acute-onset suggests a vascular etiology. Fatigability and waxing/waning recommend myasthenia gravis. Weakness distribution: - Proximal vs. Upper vs. lower extremities? Brainstem infection or inflammation (e.g., sarcoidosis, BloodVitals tracker neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder). Structural lesion compressing the brainstem. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Distribution: Motor and sensory findings could localize to a spinal level. Reflexes: Upper motor neuron indicators could appear, especially subacutely (e.g., hyperreflexia, spasticity, Babinski signal). Acutely, patients may have transient spinal shock, with lack of spinal function below the extent of the lesion and areflexia. Sensation: - Frequently involved. Sensory degree could also be present. Bowel and bladder dysfunction might occur. Spinal cord compression (e.g., trauma, epidural abscess, malignancy). Inflammation (e.g., idiopathic transverse myelitis 📖, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders).

Spinal cord infarction (e.g., BloodVitals SPO2 iatrogenic or complicating meningitis with a local vasculitic course of). Distribution is variable: - Often asymmetric. Enteroviruses (e.g., poliomyelitis, enterovirus D68, enterovirus D71). Arboviruses (e.g., West Nile virus). Paraneoplastic motor neuron illness. Cranial nerve/bulbar involvement: BloodVitals SPO2 Bulbar involvement could happen, but ocular involvement is uncommon. Reflexes: BloodVitals SPO2 device Reduced (hyporeflexia or areflexia). Other findings: Lower motor BloodVitals SPO2 device neuron findings might occur (atrophy, fasciculations). CMV, HIV, EBV, VZV. Vitamin deficiency (e.g., thiamine deficiency

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