Fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a Finnish woman – a case report

Neuromyelitis optica is a rare inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that predominantly targets the optic nerves and spinal cord. Our case represents an unusual and severe course of neuromyelitis optica. Despite several forms of treatment, our patient died after a severe...

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Autores principales: Kaivorinne, Anna‐Lotta, Lintunen, Janne, Baumann, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.624
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author Kaivorinne, Anna‐Lotta
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description Neuromyelitis optica is a rare inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that predominantly targets the optic nerves and spinal cord. Our case represents an unusual and severe course of neuromyelitis optica. Despite several forms of treatment, our patient died after a severe and short‐term attack.
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spelling pubmed-49744282016-08-12 Fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a Finnish woman – a case report Kaivorinne, Anna‐Lotta Lintunen, Janne Baumann, Peter Clin Case Rep Case Reports Neuromyelitis optica is a rare inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that predominantly targets the optic nerves and spinal cord. Our case represents an unusual and severe course of neuromyelitis optica. Despite several forms of treatment, our patient died after a severe and short‐term attack. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4974428/ /pubmed/27525084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.624 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a Finnish woman – a case report
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title_full Fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a Finnish woman – a case report
title_fullStr Fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a Finnish woman – a case report
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title_short Fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a Finnish woman – a case report
title_sort fulminant neuromyelitis optica in a finnish woman – a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27525084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.624
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