Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

BACKGROUND: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare, monophasic, demyelinating disease of the CNS which sometimes could be refractory to traditional treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of fulminant ADEM which is treated with combination of corticosteroid, intravenous immuno...

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Autores principales: Taghdiri, Mohammd-Mehdi, Amanati, Ali, Abdolkarimi, Babak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056845
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author Taghdiri, Mohammd-Mehdi
Amanati, Ali
Abdolkarimi, Babak
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description BACKGROUND: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare, monophasic, demyelinating disease of the CNS which sometimes could be refractory to traditional treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of fulminant ADEM which is treated with combination of corticosteroid, intravenous immunoglobulin and cyclosporine. CONCLUSION: Immunosuppressive agents such as cyclosporine may be effective especially in fulminant form of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-34461222012-10-09 Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Taghdiri, Mohammd-Mehdi Amanati, Ali Abdolkarimi, Babak Iran J Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare, monophasic, demyelinating disease of the CNS which sometimes could be refractory to traditional treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of fulminant ADEM which is treated with combination of corticosteroid, intravenous immunoglobulin and cyclosporine. CONCLUSION: Immunosuppressive agents such as cyclosporine may be effective especially in fulminant form of the disease. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3446122/ /pubmed/23056845 Text en © 2011 Iranian Journal of Pediatrics & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Taghdiri, Mohammd-Mehdi
Amanati, Ali
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Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
title Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
title_full Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
title_fullStr Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
title_full_unstemmed Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
title_short Cyclosporine in the Treatment of a Case of Fulminant and Refractory Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
title_sort cyclosporine in the treatment of a case of fulminant and refractory acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056845
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