bulbar paralysis

Berger, in 1876, first reported a case of 12-year-old child with progressive bulbar paralysis.

First to describe progressive bulbar paralysis.

It causes progressive bulbar paralysis due to involvement of motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei.

The most frequent symptoms at onset of progressive bulbar paralysis of childhood has been a unilateral facial paralysis.

Wilks described the first case of myasthenia gravis, in 1877 (it was named "bulbar paralysis" in Guy's Hospital Reports 22:7).

He provided a comprehensive description of progressive familial spastic diplegia, and made contributions in the neuropathological study of nuclear ophthalmoplegia and asthenic bulbar paralysis.

Neurologic disorders such as myasthenia gravis, Parkinson's disease, Multiple System Atrophy, rabies, bulbar paralysis, bilateral facial nerve palsy and hypoglossal nerve palsy.

Pseudorabies, PRV, Aujeszky's disease, infectious bulbar paralysis or 'mad itch', is caused by a virus with icosahedral symmetry and belongs to the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae within the family Herpesviridae.

Differential diagnosis of BVVL includes Boltshauser syndrome, Madras disease, progressive bulbar paralysis of Fazio Londe, Nathalie syndrome and ALS (Nair 2006)