Acute Transverse Myelitis Following COVID-19 Vaccination [PDF]
Vaccines, 2021 An increasing number of people are undergoing vaccination for COVID-19 because of the ongoing pandemic. The newly developed, genetically engineered mRNA vaccines are critical for controlling the epidemic disease. However, major adverse effects, including
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Acute Transverse Myelitis after COVID-19 Vaccination [PDF]
Medicina, 2021 The adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine have been discovered as the rapid application of the vaccines continues. Neurological complications such as transverse myelitis raise concerns as cases were observed in clinical trials. Transverse myelitis is a
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Physiotherapy management of acute transverse myelitis in a pediatric patient in a Nigerian hospital: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022 Background Transverse myelitis is a rare neurological disorder of the spinal cord, caused by inflammation and damage of the myelin sheath of the neurons of the spinal cord across one or more spinal segments.
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Early SARS-CoV-2-associated acute transverse myelitis: A case for neurotropism? [PDF]
J Intern Med, 2022 There are increasing reports of immune‐mediated and para‐infectious syndromes beyond the well‐known respiratory manifestations of severe‐acute‐respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) infection.
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Acute transverse myelitis progressing to permanent quadriplegia following COVID-19 infection. [PDF]
Am J Emerg Med, 2022 As of January 2022, there have been over 350 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world. The most common symptoms in those infected are fever, cough, malaise, and myalgia, however pulmonary, hematologic, gastrointestinal, renal, and neurologic ...
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Case Reports of Acute Transverse Myelitis Associated With mRNA Vaccine for COVID-19. [PDF]
J Korean Med Sci, 2022 Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) has been reported as rare complication of vaccination. Herein, we report 2 cases of ATM after the administration of an mRNA vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Acute Transverse Myelitis: An Unusual Association—A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in MedicineAcute transverse myelitis is a rare neurological complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), particularly in sub-Saharan African origin patients. We report a case of acute transverse myelitis in a sub-Saharan African origin patient with SLE. This
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Rare case of acute transverse myelitis associated with Lyme neuroborreliosis [PDF]
IDCases, 2022 Acute transverse myelitis is a neurological disorder that leads to acute spinal cord injury due to inflammation caused by autoimmune disorders or by parainfectious etiologies.
Mujtaba Chohan, Dhara Rana, Nagwa Hafez
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A Case of Acute Transverse Myelitis in a Mildly Symptomatic Patient: An Emerging and Serious Neurological Manifestation of COVID-19. [PDF]
Cureus, 2022 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to have neurological manifestations and one of them is acute transverse myelitis (ATM). Despite being exceedingly rare (1.34-4.6 cases per million/year), COVID-19-associated ATM cases have continuously been ...
Lingas EC.
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Neuroimmunology and Novel Methods of Treatment for Acute Transverse Myelitis. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is a rare, immune-mediated pathology that is defined as an adverse inflammatory response in the spinal cord leading to neurologic injury. The pathophysiology of ATM is poorly understood, with no apparent differences in age,
Fiani B, Covarrubias C, Jarrah R.
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