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A rare association of neuromyelitis optica, antisynthetase, and antiphospholipid syndrome

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message The association of neuromyelitis optica concurrently with two other autoimmune diseases is rare. Neuromyelitis optica should be taken into consideration when evaluating the symptoms of the patient as a differential diagnostic aspect.
Dóra Nemes‐Tömöri, Richárd Csabalik, Edit Boglárka Nagy, Tibor Béldi, Gyöngyike Emese Majai   +4 more
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Relapse of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder Associated with Intravenous Lidocaine [PDF]

Case Reports in Medicine, 2011
Lidocaine unmasks silent symptoms and eases neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis patients; however, the effects of lidocaine in neuromyelitis optica have never been reported.
Akiyuki Uzawa, Masahiro Mori, Saeko Masuda, Kazuhiko Aoe, Satoshi Kuwabara   +4 more
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Neuromyelitis Optica in a Nepalese Man [PDF]

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2017
Background. Neuromyelitis optica is a severely disabling inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system of autoimmune etiology that mainly affects the optic nerves and spinal cord. Here, we present a case report detailing a patient with tingling and
Yogesh Subedi, Utsav Joshi, Sanjeeb Sudarshan Bhandari, Ashbina Pokharel, Ashbita Pokharel   +4 more
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Updated diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: Similar outcomes of previously separate cohorts [PDF]

Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 2018
Background The specificity of the aquaporin-4 antibody to predict recurrent inflammatory central nervous system disease has led to the design of the 2015 neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder criteria which capture all aquaporin-4 antibody seropositive ...
M McCreary, MA Mealy, DM Wingerchuk, M Levy, A DeSena, BM Greenberg   +5 more
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The immunological landscape of the area postrema in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders [PDF]

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
Aquaporin‐4 antibody‐positive neuromyelitis spectrum disorder is characterized by large tissue destructive lesions in medulla, spinal cord, and optic nerves, with only partial recovery from clinical symptoms, and by lesions with very little tissue destruction and mostly complete recovery from clinical symptoms, as seen in the area postrema ...
Qian Yu, Yoshiki Takai, Naoya Yamazaki, Sarah Brandl, Katharina M. Mair, Thibault Bouderlique, Maria Eleni Kastriti, Igor Adameyko, Romana Höftberger, Markus Reindl, Jan Bauer, Monika Bradl   +11 more
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Imaging Surrogates of Disease Activity in Neuromyelitis Optica Allow Distinction from Multiple Sclerosis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Inflammatory demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system are a common feature of both neuromyelitis optica and multiple sclerosis. Despite this similarity, it is evident clinically that the accumulation of disability in patients with ...
Lucy Matthews, Shannon Kolind, Alix Brazier, Maria Isabel Leite, Jonathan Brooks, Anthony Traboulsee, Mark Jenkinson, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jacqueline Palace   +8 more
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in pediatric patients

Неврология, нейропсихиатрия, психосоматика, 2018
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system with a selective injury of the optic nerves and spinal cord.
Yu. V. Tokareva, A. S. Kotov, M. V. Panteleeva, M. S. Bunak   +3 more
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Co-occurrence of aquaporin-4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and hepatocellular carcinoma: A case report [PDF]

Journal of International Medical Research
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder is a rare, relapsing autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system, primarily the optic nerves and spinal cord.
Cheng Li, Weijing Liao, Di Long
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Late-Onset Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder Mimicking a Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy–Case Report [PDF]

, 2023
A 60-year-old white woman presented to the emergency department with painless decrease of visual acuity in the left eye (LE). The diagnosis of a non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in the LE was established based on the clinical picture and ...
Lech Sedlak, Dorota Wygledowska Promienska, Marta Swierczynska   +2 more
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Neuromyelitis optica with rapid respiratory failure: a case report

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2021
Background Neuromyelitis optica is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and is characterized by severe optic neuritis and transverse myelitis. Case Presentation The patient was a 74‐year‐old man with pneumonia. On admission,
Kosuke Otake, Takashi Tagami, Norihiro Kido, Akihiro Watanabe, Masanori Sakamaki, Toru Mochizuki, Kiyoshi Matsuda   +6 more
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