The goal of this retrospective study was to assess the diagnostic value and clinical characteristics of painful tonic spasm (PTS) in patients with neuromyelitis optica (NMO). At 2 referral hospitals, ...

NMOSD is a unifying term for neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and related syndromes. NMOSD is a rare, severe, relapsing, neuroinflammatory autoimmune disease that attacks the optic nerve, spinal cord, brain ...

WASHINGTON -- Patients with IgG4-related disease appeared to benefit from inebilizumab (Uplizna), currently approved for neuromyelitis optica (NMO), in a pivotal clinical trial. Just 10% of patients ...

Autoimmune diseases cannot currently be cured, only treated, and this is also true for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, which affects the central nervous system. A Kobe University study of how ...

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"Multi-center randomized controlled trials with large samples will further confirm the association between vitamin D and NMOSD. It may be necessary for doctors to assess the vitamin D levels of ...

Other symptoms in NMOSD occur in CNS areas besides the optic nerve and spinal cord, including intractable nausea, vomiting, and intractable hiccups in area postrema syndrome (APS, a specific brainstem ...

A curative treatment for NMOSD does not currently exist. The main treatment goals are remission, long-term stabilization of disease course by means of relapse prevention and residual symptom relief.