Neuromyelitis optica antibody in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: case report
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Neuromyelitis optica antibody in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: case report.
Neuromyelitis optica antibody (or aquaporin-4 antibody) is a well established serum marker associated to high-risk neuromyelitis optica syndrome that presents as an inflammatory demyelinating disease characterized by the occurrence of bilateral and simultaneous optic neuritis without complete visual recovery or it occurs as an isolated episode of transverse myelitis accompanied by longitudinall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0004-2749
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492012000400013