Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with NMOSD: a longitudinal retrospective analysis of a Slovak cohort of 63 patients.
Jarmila SzilasiováJakub GazdaPavol MikulaAnna CvengrošováMiriam FedičováViera HančinováEma KantorováMartin KarlíkSlavomíra KováčováPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2023)
This study provides a detailed overview of the clinical and demographic characteristics of NMOSD based on a retrospective analysis of a Slovak cohort of 63 NMOSD patients and extends information provided by similar recently published studies. The most important finding is that there is a high prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis among AQP4-IgG-negative patients (25%).