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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis: A case report

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder is an autoimmune disease which tends to have other coexisting autoimmune or connective tissue diseases. However, coexisting with ankylosing spondylitis is rare. Here, we report a 57‐year‐old man
Mehri Salari, Bahareh Zaker Harofteh, Masoud Etemadifar   +2 more
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Whole-Exome Sequencing Reveals a Missense Variant c.1612C>T (p.Arg538Cys) in the BTD Gene Leading to Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder in Saudi Families

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
Biotinidase deficiency is an autosomal recessive, multiple carboxylase deficiency usually associated with seizures, eczema, hypotonia, visual disturbances, hearing loss, and developmental delays. Only a handful of cases of biotinidase deficiency that had
Muhammad Imran Naseer, Muhammad Imran Naseer, Peter Natesan Pushparaj, Peter Natesan Pushparaj, Peter Natesan Pushparaj, Angham Abdulrahman Abdulkareem, Angham Abdulrahman Abdulkareem, Osama Y. Muthaffar   +7 more
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Treatment of Corticosteroid Non-responsive Relapse of Neuromyelitis Optica with Intravenous Gamma Globulin – a Case Report [PDF]

Folia Medica, 2020
We report a case of a patient with a relapse of neuromyelitis optica. The relapse was initially treated with intravenous corticosteroids. A therapy with intravenous gamma globulin was started as there was no symptomatic improvement. The patient responded
Maria Dimitrova, Dobromir Iliev
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder with increased aquaporin-4 microparticles prior to autoantibodies in cerebrospinal fluid: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2019
Background Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders are severe autoimmune inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system associated with the presence of immunoglobulin G antibodies against the water channel protein aquaporin-4.
Susanne Bejerot, Eva Hesselmark, Fariborz Mobarrez, Håkan Wallén, Max Albert Hietala, Rolf Nybom, Lennart Wetterberg   +6 more
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The efficacy of rituximab in the therapy of neuromyelitis optica in a patient with Sjogren's syndrome: case-report and literature review [PDF]

Терапевтический архив, 2018
This case is the first description of the successful anti-B-cell therapy with rituximab in a patient with Sjogrenʼs syndrome and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in Russia.
A V Torgashina, V I Vasilyev
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Polyspecific, antiviral immune response distinguishes multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica [PDF]

, 1887
Background: A polyspecific, intrathecal humoral immune response against neurotropic viruses such as measles, rubella and varicella zoster virus (MRZ reaction, MRZR) is present in 80--100% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), but has not to date been
Bergamaschi, R., Eichhorn, P., Franciotta, D., Jarius, S., Maurer, M., Petereit, H. F., Rauer, S., Tumani, H., Vincent, A., Voltz, R., Wandinger, K. P., Wick, M., Wildemann, B.   +12 more
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Biomarkers for neuromyelitis optica: a visual analysis of emerging research trends

Neural Regeneration Research
Neuromyelitis optica is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that differs from multiple sclerosis. Over the past 20 years, the search for biomarkers for neuromyelitis optica has been ongoing.
Xiangjun Li, Jiandong Zhang, Siqi Zhang, Shengling Shi, Yi’an Lu, Ying Leng, Chunyan Li   +6 more
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Electrical muscle stimulation intervention in the acute phase of neuromyelitis optica: Two case reports

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of electrical muscle stimulation on muscle atrophy caused by neuromyelitis optica. Two neuromyelitis optica patients with flaccid paralysis participated.
Kana Michiue, Yuichi Nishikawa
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Neuromyelitis Optica in a Nepalese Man

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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The Gut Microbiome in Neuromyelitis Optica. [PDF]

, 2017
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a rare, disabling, sometimes fatal central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disease that is associated with antibodies ("NMO IgG") that target the water channel protein aquaporin-4 (AQP4) expressed on astrocytes ...
Baranzini, Sergio E, Cree, Bruce AC, Spencer, Collin M, Zamvil, Scott S   +3 more
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