Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in three generations of a Chinese family [PDF]
© 2019 Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder is an inflammatory demyelinating disease that is largely sporadic. Familial disease has been reported in one or two generations, although its basis remains unknown.
Dalton, Caroline +7 more
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Blood levels of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) in patients with neurological diseases [PDF]
Background and Purpose: The brain-specific astroglial protein GFAP is a blood biomarker candidate indicative of intracerebral hemorrhage in patients with symptoms suspicious of acute stroke.
Brunkhorst, Robert +5 more
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) – diagnosis, epidemiology, clinical course, treatment
Devic’s disease (neuromyelitis optica, NMO) was first described under this name in 1894, and it was originally thought of as a variant of multiple sclerosis.
Agnieszka Damiza-Detmer +4 more
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Functional characterization of reappearing B cells after anti-CD20 treatment of CNS autoimmune disease. [PDF]
The anti-CD20 antibody ocrelizumab, approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis, leads to rapid elimination of B cells from the blood. The extent of B cell depletion and kinetics of their recovery in different immune compartments is largely unknown ...
Bernard, Claude CA +9 more
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Fahr’s syndrome, also known as bilateral striopallidodendate calcinosis, is a rare inherited neurodegenerative illness characterized by abnormal calcium deposition in several areas of the brain, resulting in a wide range of neuropsychological symptoms ...
Ahmad Nawaz +5 more
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A Perspective of Coagulation Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis and in Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis [PDF]
A key role of both coagulation and vascular thrombosis has been reported since the first descriptions of multiple sclerosis (MS). Subsequently, the observation of a close concordance between perivascular fibrin(ogen) deposition and the occurrence of ...
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Objektivierung von funktionellen und strukturellen Beeinträchtigungen sensorischer Afferenzen bei neuroimmunologischen Krankheitsbildern [PDF]
In dieser kumulativen Habilitationsschrift werden eigene Arbeiten zusammengefasst, die sich thematisch mit der Objektivierung sensorischer Afferenzstörungen bei neuroimmunologischen Krankheitsbildern befassen. B-mode Ultraschall, eine in der klinischen
Schmidt, Felix Alexander
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Fatal anti-aquaporin-4 seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in tuberculosis [PDF]
© 2014 Sridhar et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.Background: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune inflammatory condition of the central nervous system that is characterized by circulating anti-aquaporin-4 antibodies, transverse myelitis and ...
Chan, JFW, Sridhar, S, Yuen, KY
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Visual Evoked Potentials in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders
Background Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSDs) are rare antibody-mediated disorders of the central nervous system, with a predilection for the spinal cord and optic nerves.
Otto Jesus Hernandez Fustes MD, PhD +5 more
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Cognitive Impairment in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders: A Review of Clinical and Neuroradiological Features [PDF]
Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are mostly relapsing autoimmune inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) with optic neuritis, myelitis, and brainstem syndromes as clinical hallmarks.
Brandt, Alexander U. +3 more
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