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Mycoplasma pneumoniae-associated transverse myelitis presenting as asymmetric flaccid paralysis

Clinics and Practice, 2019
Acute transverse myelitis is a rare spinal cord inflammatory disorder that manifests as sudden onset of motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunctions.
Shafee Salloum, Ajay Goenka, Elizabeth Ey   +2 more
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Steroid Refractory and Plasma Exchange Partially Responsive Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis Due to Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (Etanercept): A Case Report [PDF]

Clinics and Practice
Background: Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is an inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord with heterogeneous etiologies, including autoimmune, infectious, paraneoplastic, and drug-induced causes.
Jelena Stojsavljevic, Rafael R. Perez, Emilia Petcu, Celestine Odenigbo, Cristian Madrid, Igor Dumic, Charles W. Nordstrom   +6 more
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Transverse myelitis following COVID-19 infection. What is the mechanism? A case report and literature review [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2021
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak became one of the most global health challenges in the recent century. Transverse myelitis is a rare medical condition reported in few case reports following COVID-19 infection. We
Babak Alijani, Alia Saberi, Parham Niyasti, Mohammad Haghani Dogahe   +3 more
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Case Report Of Transverse Myelitis: Rare Neurological Complications Of Herpes Zoster Virus

Journal of Agromedicine and Medical Sciences (AMS), 2023
Introduction: Transverse myelitis is a rare disease that accured by incident 0,3%-1% Though it rare happened transverse myelitis deserve to diccus because the variant presentation that make clinical challenge to dianosis to pre-observation for upgrade’s
Mukhammad Arif Hadi Khoiruddin, Ika Sedar Wasis Sasono   +1 more
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Acute Transverse Myelitis in a Child Following Oral Live Polio Vaccine Administration [PDF]

International Medical Case Reports Journal
Sergiy Kramarov,1 Liudmyla Palatna,1 Iryna Shpak,1 Iryna Seriakova,1 Liudmyla Zakordonets,2 Liudmyla Verbova,3 Oleksandr Molodetskyi,3 Liudmyla Myroniak,4 Tatiana Isayenko5 1Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Bogomolets National Medical ...
Kramarov S, Palatna L, Shpak I, Seriakova I, Zakordonets L, Verbova L, Molodetskyi O, Myroniak L, Isayenko T   +8 more
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Transverse myelitis

Autoimmunity Reviews, 2012
Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is an etiologically heterogeneous syndrome with acute or subacute onset, in which inflammation of the spinal cord results in neurologic deficits, manifesting as weakness, sensory loss and autonomic dysfunction. It is frequently associated with infectious or systemic autoimmune diseases, but its etiology remains unknown ...
Andrea T, Borchers, M Eric, Gershwin
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Compressive epidural fluid collection secondary to varicella zoster transverse myelitis

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
Transverse myelitis is often clinically indistinguishable from compressive myelopathies that require emergent neurosurgical intervention. Here, we present a case of acute varicella zoster virus transverse myelitis that was associated with a compressive ...
Vase Bari, Jonathan Frommelt, Vikas Jain
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Pediatric transverse myelitis [PDF]

Neurology, 2016
Pediatric acute transverse myelitis (ATM) is an immune-mediated CNS disorder and contributes to 20% of children experiencing a first acquired demyelinating syndrome (ADS). ATM must be differentiated from other presentations of myelopathy and may be the first presentation of relapsing ADS such as neuromyelitis optica (NMO) or multiple sclerosis (MS ...
Absoud, Michael, Greenberg, Benjamin M., Lim, Ming, Lotze, Tim, Thomas, Terrence, Deiva, Kumaran   +5 more
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Constipation in transverse myelitis

BMJ Case Reports, 2023
Transverse myelitis is an extremely rare neuroinflammatory disorder. About half of the affected patients develop paraplegia associated with urinary and bowel dysfunction. The bowel dysfunction is thought to be benign and is usually managed with dietary management and laxatives.
Justine Chinnappan, Abinash Parajuli, Huda Marcus, Ghassan Bachuwa   +3 more
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Neurogenic shock due to transverse myelitis with Landry’s acute flaccid paralysis in a child [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2022
Neurogenic shock is a life-threatening condition mostly associated with cervical and high thoracic spine injury, whereas transverse myelitis leading to neurogenic shock is extremely rare.
Kiem Hao Tran, Huu Son Nguyen, Nguyen Loi Vo-Van   +2 more
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