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SM Journal Clinical and Medical Imaging

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO)

[ ISSN : 3068-000X ]

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Received: 08-Jul-2015

Accepted: 30-Nov-2015

Published: 15-Dec-2015

Case Report | Volume 1 - Issue 1 | Article DOI :

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Sreenivasa Rao Sudulagunta1*, Mahesh Babu Sodalagunta2, Hadi Khorram3, Mona Sepehrar4 and Zahra Noroozpour5

1Hospitalist, Columbia Asia Hospital, Bangalore, India

2Graduate in General Medicine, KS. Hegde Medical College, Bangalore, India

3Otolaryngology department, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Medical College, Bangalore, India

4Doctor of Pharmacy, Baptist Hospital, Bangalore, India

5Post Graduate in Emergency Medicine, Columbia Asia Hospital, Hebbal, Bangalore, India

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Sreenivasa Rao Sudulagunta, MD Hospitalist, Columbia Asia Hospital, Hebbal, Bangalore, Tel: 8147572745

Keywords

Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO); Optic neuritis; Transverse myelitis; IgG

Abstract

Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO or Devic’s syndrome) is a rare demyelinating disease of the CNS that predominantly affects the spinal cord and optic nerves and shares many clinical and radiological features with multiple sclerosis. We report a case regarding a 53 year old woman who was admitted initially with hiccups and paraesthesias but was not evaluated during first 2 episodes and presented with severe progression of NMO. NMO was diagnosed with Seropositivity for NMO-IgG and longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesions (3 or more spinal segments).

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Sudulagunta SR, Sodalagunta MB, Khorram H, Sepehrar M and Noroozpour Z. Neuromyelitis optica (NMO). SM J Clin. Med. Imaging. 2015; 1(1): 1002.