A 25-year-old woman with primary Sjögren syndrome who developed optic neuritis and encephalomyelitis associated with an anti-aquaporin 4 antibody

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 576-581

  Kato, Hirotaka ^a   Ichikawa, Hiroo ^a   Hayashi, Daigo ^a   Yamazaki, Takahiro ^a   Ohnaka, Youhei ^a   Kawamura, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti aquaporin 4 antibody; Autoimmnune disease; Multiple sclerosis; Neuromyelitis optica; Sj gren syndrome

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LA ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RO ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PARESTHESIA; PARIETAL LOBE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RETROBULBAR OPTIC NEUROPATHY; SALIVARY GLAND; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STEROID THERAPY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 71949131337     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.49.576     Document Type: Article

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