By GREG ALLMAIN Federal Way Mirror reporter April 4, 2012 · 10:46 AM With National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Month having just ended in March, and the MS Walk coming up in Tacoma on April 14-15, there’s one Federal Way woman who is well acquainted with the disease. Deanna Kirkpatrick, 44, was diagnosed with the debilitating condition six years ago
Kevin Weilacher was on vacation when he developed a rare disorder that left him temporarily paralyzed and anxiously awaiting a diagnosis. He and wife, Liz, just celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary in Niagara Falls. While traveling back to Ohio, the couple stopped to visit Weilacher’s mother in Erie, Penn.
Pain in neuromyelitis optica and its effect on quality of life A cross-sectional study Y. Kanamori , PhD , I.
Transverse Myelitis: Symptoms, Causes and Diagnosis Joanne Lynn, M.D. Transverse myelitis (TM) is a neurologic syndrome caused by inflammation of the spinal cord. TM is uncommon but not rare.
Optic neuritis is defined as inflammation of the optic nerve.
Sir, We report a 9-yr-old girl with a severe relapsing–remitting course of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) [who had a dramatic and -sustained improvement over a 2-yr period of treatment with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), the prodrug of mycophenolic acid. A 9-yr-old Caucasian girl, previously healthy, was admitted to A.