To the editor: I am a survivor of bulbar (throat) polio; I contracted it when I was 5 years old in 1946. While I was fortunate to survive and not be placed in an iron lung, I was left unable to ...

The three major types of polio include spinal polio, a paralytic polio that attacks nerve cells in the spinal cord; bulbar polio, in which the virus attacks motor neurons in the brainstem ...

19 These investigators noted diastolic hypertension in 72.9 per cent of patients with bulbar poliomyelitis. Elevated blood pressure was found in only 7 per cent of the spinal forms and 12 per cent ...

Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic respirator, which looks like a small horn radio, is designed to aid patients suffering from bulbar poliomyelitis. In this type of the disease, the phrenic ...

A second type, bulbar poliomyelitis, infects the medulla oblongata and may result in dysfunction of the swallowing mechanism along with respiratory and circulatory distress. Minor forms of ...