Clinical and evoked potential changes in acute transverse myelitis following methyl prednisolone

Acute transverse myelitis following typhoid vaccination

Acute transverse myelitis in childhood

CME ABSTRACT Objective: To relate clinical characteristics associated with acute transverse myelitis (ATM) in children with functional outcomes at follow-up.Methods:We identified 47 patients for whom ATM occurred under the age of 18 years. Chart analysis, clinical evaluation, and administration of functional measures were completed. Results: The age at onset clustered between ages 0 to 2 and 5 ...

Acute transverse myelitis in children.

A case of Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM) is presented. ATM is a rare disease in childhood. The diagnosis stems from the clinical presentation, cerebrospinal fluid findings, appearance of the spinal cord on imaging and ruling out differential diagnoses like Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) and Poliomyelitis. The proposed treatment is intravenous (IV) methyl prednisolone with variable chances of re...

Acute transverse myelitis in SLE.

A 21-year-old woman with a 5-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presented with a 4-hour paraparesis. Examination revealed absent knee and ankle reflexes, extensor plantar responses, and a T4 sensory level. MRI showed cord swelling and high T2 signal from C4/5 to T9/10 (figure, A) and within the corpus callosum and pericallosal white matter (figure, B). CSF oligoclonal bands were...

Transverse myelitis following spinal anesthesia.

Spinal anesthesia is widely used during surgical procedures. It is generally safe and the frequency of severe, permanent neurological complications associated with it has been reported to be extremely low. We report a patient, who developed paraplegia following spinal anesthesia. A 29-year-old male was referred with acute, flaccid, sensory motor paraplegia, with bladder and bowel involvement. H...