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Neuromyelitis optica of very late onset: one more case.
Dear editors, We read with extreme interest the paper by Souza et al.1 This study describes one case of a 75-year-old woman with neuromyelitis optica (NMO)1. Including this case, only six cases of neuromyelitis optica developing after the age of 70 have been reported. We think that it is important to describe our recent experience. A 72-year-old Caucasian woman sought our service complaining of...
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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...
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BACKGROUND Increasing rates of AQP4-seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) have been reported in late-onset patients (LONMOSD). However, the full range of clinical differences between early-onset and late-onset variants remain unclear. We describe the clinical features and outcomes of AQP4-seropositive LONMOSD patients in a Chinese population. METHODS This was a retrospec...
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Background: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) has emerged as a disorder distinct from multiple sclerosis, largely due to the discovery in 2004 of a novel disease marker, aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin or AQP4-IgG (also known as NMO-IgG). Differentiating NMOSD from multiple sclerosis has important prognostic and treatment implications. The features of pediatriconset multiple sclerosis h...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20130077