[A case of cervical spondylotic amyotrophy resembling post-polio syndrome].

We reported a 62-year-old man with cervical spondylotic amyotrophy, in whom differentiation from post-polio syndrome was required. At the age of 3, the patient developed acute anterior poliomyelitis that caused muscular atrophy and muscle weakness in the left arm and bilateral lower limbs. At the age of 61, after approximately 58 years of symptomatic stabilization, the patient newly developed muscular atrophy and muscle weakness localized in the triceps muscle of the left arm.

[Long-term treatment of diabetes mellitus in myotonic dystrophy with pioglitazone].

We report beneficial effects of pioglitazone on insulin resistance in diabetes mellitus accompanied with myotonic dystrophy (DM1). We studied eight DM1 patients with diabetes mellitus aged 32 to 60 (mean age 52.1 +/- 8.