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A Case of Atopic Myelitis with Cervical Cavernous Angioma

open access: yesCase Reports in Medicine, 2017
Atopic myelitis, a type of myelitis which appears in patients with elevated serum levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), occurs more commonly in the cervical spinal cord, but this mechanism has not yet been elucidated.
Miyuki Fukuda   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leprous ganglionitis and myelitis [PDF]

open access: yesNeurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, 2016
A 27-year-old Brazilian woman presented with a 7-month history of progressive pain, tingling, numbness, and weakness of the left upper limb, and paroxysmal dysesthesia affecting the left foot. On examination, there were erythematous, anesthetic patches of skin overlying the metacarpophalangeal joints and on the palmar surfaces of the hands (figure e-1 ...
Rice, Claire M   +8 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Mumps Myelitis—A Rare Cause of Myelitis

open access: yesThe American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ABSTRACT. This report presents a rare case of acute transverse myelitis (ATM) after mumps infection in a 33-year-old male. Symptoms included fever, parotid and scrotal swelling, and subsequent sensory-motor paraparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed long-segment spinal cord hyperintensity, and cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed pleocytosis and ...
Bansal, Kshitij   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Proposed diagnostic criteria and nosology of acute transverse myelitis

open access: yes, 2002
Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is a focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord, resulting in motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunction. A set of uniform diagnostic criteria and nosology for ATM is proposed to avoid the confusion that inevitably ...
Lucchinetti, C.   +62 more
core   +1 more source

Effects of the Positive Threshold and Data Analysis on Human MOG Antibody Detection by Live Flow Cytometry

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2020
Human autoantibodies targeting myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG Ab) have become a useful clinical biomarker for the diagnosis of a spectrum of inflammatory demyelinating disorders.
Fiona Tea   +26 more
doaj   +1 more source

Angiostrongylosis meningomyelitis without blood eosinophilia

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Angiostrongylus cantonensis and Gnathostoma spinigerum usually cause eosinophilic meningitis with associated peripheral blood eosinophilia. A 44-year-old man developed acute paraplegia with bowel and bladder dysfunction. Spinal magnetic resonance images
Thanyalak Amornpojnimman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Magnetic resonance imaging in enterovirus-71, myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody, aquaporin-4 antibody, and multiple sclerosis-associated myelitis in children.

open access: yes, 2019
Aim: We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare the neuroimaging of children with their first episode of clinical enterovirus 71-associated transverse myelitis (EV71-TM), myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody positive transverse myelitis (
Gorman M   +22 more
core   +1 more source

Transverse myelitis spectrum disorders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is an inflammatory demyelinating disorder that affects the spinal cord focally resulting in motor sensory and autonomic dysfunction.
Pandit, Lekha
core   +2 more sources

Contrasting disease patterns in seropositive and seronegative neuromyelitis optica: A multicentre study of 175 patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
BACKGROUND: The diagnostic and pathophysiological relevance of antibodies to aquaporin-4 (AQP4-Ab) in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) has been intensively studied. However, little is known so far about the clinical impact of
Jarius Sven   +269 more
core   +2 more sources

Clinical and Electrophysiological Outcome Measures of Patients With Post-Infectious Neurological Syndromes Related to COVID-19 Treated With Intensive Neurorehabilitation

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2021
Background: The clinical spectrum of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, may be quite wide, including neurological symptoms.
Micol Avenali   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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