Gluten sensitivity and neuromyelitis optica: two case reports

Gluten sensitivity and neuromyelitis optica: two case reports.

Neuromyelitis optica is a clinical syndrome characterised by acute transverse myelitis plus an acute or subacute optic neuritis with or without recovery. Although once believed to be a variant of multiple sclerosis, diagnostic criteria have recently been proposed for neuromyelitis optica, making it a clinically distinct syndrome. The term gluten sensitivity refers to a state of heightened immun...

A Case of Neuromyelitis Optica

Karpakam, a female Hindu child of 7 years, was admitted into the Madras General Hospital, under Lieut.-Colonel McRobert, i.m.s., on the 23rd November, 1939. The complaint was blindness and inability to use the lower limbs. There had been no previous illnesses of note, the family history was negative and the dietary habits similar to those of her class, i.e., non-vegetarian. The child had been a...

A Case of Neuromyelitis Optica

Neuromyelitis Optica

An 11-year-old girl developed sudden visual loss in her left eye, preceding subacute myelitis by 9 months. Multifocal lesions in the central nervous system were demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging. Although unilateral blindness is unusual, the clinical findings predominantly involving the optic nerve and spinal cord were consistent with the diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica (NMO). This c...

A Case of Neuromyelitis Optica (Devics' Disease)

ages; according to some authors more commonly young females. Pathologically the disease resembles disseminated sclerosis in that there is demyelinization of axis cylinders. The spinal cord shows such diffuse or multiple disseminated lesions. The optic nerves also present the same type of lesions. Clinically the disease is quite distinct from disseminated sclerosis. It is characterized by an acu...