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: There have been few epidemiologic studies on neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and none used the recent 2006 diagnostic criteria. Here we describe the clinical, laboratory, MRI, and disability course of NMO in a French cohort of 125 patients. METHODS: We performed an observational, retrospective, multicenter study.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the features of pain and its impact on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in neuromyelitis optica (NMO). METHODS: We analyzed 37 patients with NMO or NMO spectrum disorders seen at the Department of Neurology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan, during the period from November 2008 to February 2009
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an uncommon idiopathic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and is sometimes unresponsive to steroid treatment as compared to multiple sclerosis (MS). There are only a few reports of plasma exchange (PE) as an effective rescue treatment when high-dose steroid therapy fails in exacerbations of NMO.
Background: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of optic neuritis and longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis(LETM). Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) such as voiding dysfuntion are disturbing in LETM patients and has not been studied in this specific population
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an uncommon, life-threatening inflammatory demyelinating disorder.
BACKGROUND: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a rare inflammatory disease. Average age at onset is 35 years