Idiopathic acute transverse myelitis: outcome and conversion to multiple sclerosis in a large series [PDF]
Background: in 2002, the Transverse Myelitis Consortium Working Group (TMCWG) proposed the diagnostic criteria for idiopathic acute transverse myelitis (IATM) to delimit and unify this group of patients.
Alentorn Palau, Agustí +5 more
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Early-onset acute transverse myelitis following hepatitis B vaccination and respiratory infection: case report [PDF]
Acute transverse myelitis is an acute inflammatory process of the spinal cord and it is a rare clinical syndrome in childhood. In this paper, we report a case of 3 years-old boy who developed acute onset tetraparesia following a viral respiratory ...
Luiz Fernando Fonseca +4 more
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Background: Native hip dislocations are most commonly seen after high energy trauma. While there are documented cases of hip dislocation with associated stroke, we present a case of posterior hip dislocation in the context of acute longitudinal ...
Chiraag Pandya +2 more
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Diagnostic Criteria of Acute Transverse Myelitis
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the diagnosis of acute transverse myelitis (ATM), as a basis for multicenter clinical trials, are proposed by a Transverse Myelitis Consortium Working Group.
J Gordon Millichap
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Post-infective transverse myelitis following Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis with radiological features of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: a case report. [PDF]
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Thorpe, John, Williams, Thomas
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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 +3 more
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EVALUATION OF CASES PRESENTING WITH MYELITIS IN CHILDHOOD
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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A Case Report of Acute Transverse Myelitis Following Novel Coronavirus Infection [PDF]
Introduction: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, emergency providers are not only seeing an increasing number of patients with COVID-19 infections, but also associated complications and sequelae of this viral illness.Case Report: We
Bilello, Leslie A., Sarma, Deesha
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Magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis of infectious and inflammatory conus medullaris lesions [PDF]
The conus medullaris is frequently affected by inflammatory and infectious lesions which many times are hardly differentiated because of the similarity of their clinical history and physical examination among the different etiologies.
Abdala, Nitamar +5 more
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Acute transverse myelitis – A rare clinical manifestation of Lyme neuroborreliosis
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 +5 more
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