Hemorrhagic Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis [PDF]
Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2016 Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) may be associated with viral triggers, including both infections and vaccinations. We present a case of a healthy immunocompetent 33-year-old woman who developed a hemorrhagic LETM 2 weeks after ...
Chris Y. Wu +2 more
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Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis: A Sub-Saharan Conundrum [PDF]
Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2020 Spinal cord schistosomiasis is a rare, underdiagnosed manifestation of schistosomiasis. We present the case of a 36-year-old male who presented to our institution with a one-week history of low back pain with rapidly progressive lower limb weakness, loss
Antonina Obayo +2 more
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Neurosyphilis manifesting as longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis [PDF]
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2023 Ayush Agarwal +4 more
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Foix-Alajouanine Syndrome Mimicking Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020 Foix-Alajouanine syndrome is an arteriovenous malformation causing subacute congestive myelopathy that can lead to progressive paraplegia. It typically affects the lower thoracic and lumbosacral levels.
Anirudha S Rathnam, Anza B Memon
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Sarcoidosis Presenting as Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of the Belgian Society of RadiologySpinal cord sarcoidosis is a rare condition that can present as a longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis. Current imaging may suggest this pathology, but the final diagnosis relies on the histologic findings.
Joudia Touri +2 more
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Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis as an initial manifestation of sarcoidosis: A rare case and its management [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsKey Clinical Message Sarcoidosis‐induced LETM represents a rare but life‐threatening neurological manifestation of sarcoidosis, characterized by spinal cord inflammation, and associated neurological deficits.
Aman Kumar +9 more
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Dengue-associated longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis. [PDF]
BMJ Case RepWe diagnosed a patient with dengue fever who developed acute onset of sensorimotor quadriparesis with bladder involvement, and facial nerve involvement. Despite initial negative results in routine investigations and cerebrospinal fluid analysis, spinal MRI confirmed longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis.
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 Albeit, all forms of tuberculosis (TB) are endemic in India, spinal intramedullary TB and tubercular longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is deemed extremely rare.
Kumar Abhishek Anand +6 more
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Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis in a Lupus–Neuromyelitis Optica Overlap [PDF]
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2021 Transverse myelitis is an inflammatory lesion of the spinal cord, occurring in different autoimmune, infectious, and traumatic diseases but is the hallmark of neuromyelitis optica (NMO), a rare neurologic autoimmune disease.
Yonit Tavor +3 more
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Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis with seropositive chikungunya [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2019 Chikungunya viral (CHIKV) fever is often a self-limiting febrile illness associated with severe debilitating arthralgia. Neurological complications associated with CHIKV, although rare, have been reported in literature; however, longitudinally extensive ...
Hameed, Sajid +3 more
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