Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy on Neuromyelitis Optica. Curr Neurovasc Res
Failure of Natalizumab to Prevent Relapses in Neuromyelitis Optica Ingo Kleiter, MD; Kerstin Hellwig, MD; Achim Berthele, MD; Tania K?mpfel, MD; Ralf A. Linker, MD; Hans-Peter Hartung, MD; Friedemann Paul, MD; Orhan Aktas, MD; for the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group Arch Neurol. ?2012;69(2):239-245.
Neuromyelitis optica in Japanese sisters.
Keywords: diffusion tensor imaging; cervical spinal cord; neuromyelitis optica Abstract Purpose: To investigate whether quantitative MRI measures of cervical spinal cord white matter (WM) using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in neuromyelitis optica (NMO) differed from controls and correlated with clinical disability. Materials and Methods: Ten referred patients and 12 healthy volunteers were imaged on a 3 Tesla scanner and patients were clinically assessed on the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)
BACKGROUND: Differentiating neuromyelitis optica (NMO) from multiple sclerosis (MS) is a real challenge in the clinical field. In the past, NMO (not MS), was inferred when abnormality was not detected in the brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Recently, some studies have reported abnormalities in the brain MRIs of NMO, but only few among the Asian population.
Background: Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) is a rare but severe disease affecting young adults with a mean age at onset of 34.5 years. The female: male ratio is 3:1 so most of patients are women of childbearing potential.
Introduction: The association between susceptibility to MS and class II alleles of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is well established in MS patients but not in NMOR. The ethnicity has an important role in MS HLA DQ and DR profile. Brazilian population has ethnic particularities with a high mixed African and Caucasian Mediterranean population
BACKGROUND: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a disease of the CNS characterized by severe optic neuritis and longitudinally extended transverse myelitis. Recent studies suggest that anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibodies, NMO-specific biomarkers, are pathogenic and target AQP4-expressing astrocytes in NMO, although an additional event (T-cell response or infection) should occur for anti-AQP4 antibodies and complements to pass through the blood-brain barrier and cause the CNS lesions
PURPOSE: To better understand the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neuromyelitis optica (NMO), we developed a proteomics platform for biomarker discovery in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with NMO.
BACKGROUND: To establish whether or not multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO) are different pathological entities, we wondered whether MS patients and NMO patients share the same pattern of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) predisposition. OBJECTIVE: To study a putative association between susceptibility to NMO and HLA class I or class II loci in Caucasians. METHODS: A total of 39 unrelated Caucasian patients with NMO and six patients at a high risk of converting to NMO were studied
Anti-aquaporin-4 (Aqp-4) antibody and complement system have emerged as major pathogenic factors in neuromyelitis optica (NMO). To test the significance of interleukin-6 (IL-6), another important humoral immunity factor, in NMO pathogenesis, we measured serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IL-6 levels of 23 NMO, 11 transverse myelitis, 16 optic neuritis, 27 relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients, and 20 neurologically normal controls
BACKGROUND: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a recurring inflammatory neurological disease characterized by severe optic neuritis and myelitis. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT) is correlated with the clinical presentations in patients with NMO and to determine the clinical factors that lead to poor visual outcomes. METHODS: Thirty-five eyes of 18 patients with the NMO spectrum and 28 eyes of 14 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were studied.