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Acute transverse myelitis – A rare clinical manifestation of Lyme neuroborreliosis

IDCases, 2019
Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is a rare, potentially devastating neurological syndrome that has variety of causes, infectious being one of them. Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector borne zoonosis in the United States (U.S.).
Igor Dumic, Danilo Vitorovic, Scott Spritzer, Erik Sviggum, Janki Patel, Poornima Ramanan   +5 more
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EVALUATION OF CASES PRESENTING WITH MYELITIS IN CHILDHOOD

İstanbul Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
Objective: Myelitis is a monophasic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the spinal cord and brain, often of unknown origin. It is characterized with motor, sensory, and autonomic symptoms. In the childhood age group, it is most frequently seen as acute
Mahmut Aslan, Serdal Güngör
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Anesthetic Management of an Obstetric Patient with Behçet’s Disease Complicated by Transverse Myelitis

Case Reports in Anesthesiology, 2022
Transverse myelitis is an acute inflammation of the spinal cord. Its annual incidence is 1–8 per million. Behçet disease is also a rare autoimmune disease. Transverse myelitis can be a manifestation of neuro-Behçet’s disease.
Sara Alwatban, Etedal AlAamri, Abdullah Alraffa, Mona Alkhawajah   +3 more
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Clinical Presentation and Rehabilitation Outcomes in Post-Coronavirus Disease-2019 Vaccination Longitudinal Extensive Transverse Myelitis: Report of Three Cases with Follow-up at 8 Months

Indian Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2023
Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is an infrequent subtype of acute transverse myelitis, which presents with sensory, motor and autonomic dysfunction after a focal or widespread inflammation of the spinal cord due to either direct ...
Anurag Ranga, Anupam Gupta, Navin B. Prakash, Meeka Khanna   +3 more
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SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Associated Transverse Myelitis: A Case Report [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
While policy makers around the globe have meticulously organised mass immunisation against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), its safety concerns and adverse events that need prompt evaluation are also emerging. Acute Transverse Myelitis (TM) is a rare
Bhargavi Kumar, Saravanan Thangavelu, Sakthivel Selvam, Vikranth Raja, Aditya Chandran   +4 more
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Acute transverse myelitis in Lyme neuroborreliosis [PDF]

Infection, 2010
Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is a rare disorder (1-8 new cases per million of population per year), with 20% of all cases occurring in patients younger than 18 years of age. Diagnosis requires clinical symptoms and evidence of inflammation within the spinal cord (cerebrospinal fluid and/or magnetic resonance imaging).
Bigi S, Aebi C, Nauer C, Bigler S, Steinlin M   +4 more
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Vaccine Induced Acute Transverse Myelitis: A Case Report

Nepal Journal of Neuroscience, 2016
Acute transverse myelitis is a focal infl ammatory disorder of the spinal cord. One of the main etiologic factors include, multiple sclerosis, post-infectious and post-traumatic events although autoimmune phenomenon is the most common cause.
Avinash Chandra , Reema Rajbhandari , Samir Acharya , Priya Gurung , Basant Pant   +4 more
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Central Nervous System Tuberculosis Presenting As a Case of Myelitis: A Rare Complication

Journal of Clinical and Basic Research, 2021
Background: Transverse myelitis is an inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord manifested by acute or subacute onset of paraparesis, sensory deficit and autonomic dysfunction.
Nihar Ranjan Mohanty, Bhagyashree Panda
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Coexistence of myositis, transverse myelitis, and Guillain Barré syndrome following Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in an adolescent

Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences, 2013
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and transverse myelitis may occur coexistently in the pediatric population. This may be explained by a shared epitope between peripheral and central nervous system myelin.
Yasemin Topcu, Erhan Bayram, Pakize Karaoglu, Uluc Yis, Handan Guleryuz, Semra Hiz Kurul   +5 more
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Understanding Further the Phenotypic Spectrum of Central Nervous System Inflammatory Demyelinating Disorders Using Unsupervised Clustering

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory demyelinating syndromes, including multiple sclerosis (MS), aquaporin‐4 antibody–positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4 + NMOSD), and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), occasionally overlap.
Bade Gulec, Elif Everest, Melih Tutuncu, Ugur Bilge, Sabahattin Saip, Ugur Uygunoglu, Aksel Siva   +6 more
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