Enhancing Brain Lesions during Acute Optic Neuritis and/or Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis May Portend a Higher Relapse Rate in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders.
Gunes OrmanKevin Yuqi WangYeliz PekçevikC B ThompsonMaureen A MealyMichael LevyIzlem IzbudakPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2017)
Brain MRIs of patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders with contrast enhancement during an acute relapse of optic neuritis and/or longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis are associated with increased annual relapse rates.
Keyphrases
- liver failure
- free survival
- respiratory failure
- resting state
- white matter
- optical coherence tomography
- drug induced
- aortic dissection
- functional connectivity
- magnetic resonance
- optic nerve
- cerebral ischemia
- hepatitis b virus
- multiple sclerosis
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- blood brain barrier
- spectrum disorder