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Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy and Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis [PDF]

, 2017
Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy is an inherited optic neuropathy caused by mitochondrial DNA point mutations leading to sudden, painless loss of vision. We report a case of an 8-year-old boy presenting with a radiological phenotype of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis on a background of severe visual impairment secondary to Leber ...
Bursle, C, Riney, K, Stringer, J, Moore, D, Gole, G, Kearns, LS, Mackey, DA, Coman, D   +7 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, Moshe Herskovitz, Galia Ronen, Alexandra Balbir-Gurman   +3 more
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Association of dengue with longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis and subarachnoid hemorrhage: An unusual presentation

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, Nishant Aswani, Geeta Anjum Khwaja, Puja Rani   +3 more
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Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis associated with scrub typhus: A case report

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
Rationale: Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is a rare inflammatory demyelinating disease predominantly associated with autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.
Amit Kumar, Rajesh Chetiwal, Shweta Tanwar   +2 more
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Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection

Pakistan Journal of Medicine and Dentistry
Background: Often encompassing three or more spinal segments, longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is a severe inflammatory disease of the spinal cord.
Sameena Majeed, Rifat Ullah, Muhammad Tahir , Majeed Ullah, Ayaz Ul Haq, Arif Hayat   +5 more
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Analysis of prognostic factors associated with longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis [PDF]

Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2012
Objective: The aim of this study is to report the clinical profile and outcome of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM). Methods: We prospectively studied adult patients who presented with LETM from January 2008 to ...
Sepúlveda, María, Blanco, Yolanda, Saiz, Albert, Gabilondo, Iñigo, Villoslada, Ana, Perez-Sempere, Angel, Ramió-Torrentà, Lluís, Olascoaga, Javier, Montalban, Xavier, Rovira, Alex, Rio, Jordi, Mendibe , Mar, Llufriu, Sara, Castilló, Joaquín, Corral, Juan, Ayuso, Teresa, Cristina, Iñiguez, Santos, Sonia, Guijarro, Cristina, Graus, Francesc   +19 more
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Optical coherence tomography and subclinical optical neuritis in longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2017
Objective: The aim is to compare the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) eyes without previous optic neuritis with that of healthy control subjects.
Prakash Kumar Sinha, Deepika Joshi, Virendra Pratap Singh, Sujit Deshmukh, Usha Singh, Abhishek Pathak, Vijay Nath Mishra, Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia, Vivek Sharda, Garima Gupta   +9 more
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Dengue-Associated Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-Positive Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis [PDF]

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
Shubhakaran Khichar, Pradeep Lalwani, Nidhi Yadav   +2 more
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Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis as a First Manifestation of Sarcoidosis. [PDF]

Cureus, 2023
Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is a debilitating inflammatory spinal cord lesion involving several spinal segments. There are several possible etiologies, with spinal cord sarcoidosis being a rare cause of LETM. Spinal cord sarcoidosis is, in itself, a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis that can be difficult to diagnose, especially ...
Rodrigues RA, Alves T, Sousa JA, Jorge A, Geraldo A.   +4 more
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Scrub typhus with longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2016
Sanjay K Mahajan, Sanyam Kumar, Mahak Garg, Madan Kaushik, Sudhir Sharma, Rajiv Raina   +5 more
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