Neurosyphilis manifesting as longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis [PDF]
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2023 Ayush Agarwal +4 more
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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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Hemorrhagic Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis (LETM) as a First Presentation of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD): A Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsHere we present a rare case of hemorrhagic longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) as a first presentation of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder. Even though the patient received aggressive treatment, he showed no significant improvement.
Shima Jahani +2 more
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Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2018 Association of dengue fever with transverse myelitis is a rare phenomenon; involvement of a long segment is even rarer. We describe a middle-aged female who presented with weakness of bilateral lower limbs and urinary retention 4 days after recovery from
Neera Chaudhry +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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A Rare Case of Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis Following Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccination with a Favourable Outcome [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2022 Introduction: mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are very safe, but rare adverse events such as transverse myelitis have been reported after COVID-19 vaccination. Case Description: We report the case of 50-year-old man who presented with progressive lower extremity
Ojbindra KC +3 more
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Primary intramedullary spinal cord lymphoma misdiagnosed as longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis: a case report and literature review [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2023 Background Primary intramedullary spinal cord lymphoma (PISCL) is rare and easily misdiagnosed with the lack of typical clinical features and non-specific imaging manifestations. Case presentation A 49-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of
Huizhen Ge +3 more
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Cryptococcal infection causing longitudinal extensive transverse myelitis in an immunocompetent individual: Case report and literature review [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 Cryptococcal CNS infections in immunocompetent individuals are occasionally reported in literature. The spinal manifestations of cryptococcal CNS infections are epidural abscess, chronic arachnoiditis, intramedullary granuloma, myelitis and vasculitis ...
Ashwin Kumar Panda +3 more
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Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis in patient with latent and overt polyautoimmunity
Neurology Perspectives, 2023 L. Moreno-Navarro +2 more
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Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis due to toxoplasma: An autopsy study
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2018 Toxoplasma is an obligate intracellular parasite that remains asymptomatic in humans but, at times, can cause devastating disease. Here, we describe an autopsy study of a young immunocompetent gentleman with no comorbidities whose presentation was acute ...
Yareeda Sireesha +5 more
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