Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis

Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) is a demyelinating autoimmune disease involving the central nervous system. Acute respiratory failure from cervical myelitis due to NMO is known to occur but is uncommon in monophasic disease and is treated with high dose steroids. We report a case of a patient with NMO wh...

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Autores principales: Zantah, Massa, Coyle, Timothy B., Datta, Debapriya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26989546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1287690

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