ALLMedicine™ Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Center

Sep 11th, 2021 - After 3 weeks of daily headache, a 28-year-old, otherwise healthy woman was admitted to the emergency department with a first-time generalized seizure. CT showed a left frontal mass with perifocal edema. Brain MRI raised the suspicion of cerebral ...

Sep 3rd, 2021 - Spinal cord diseases in pediatric patients are highly variable in terms of presentation, pathology, and prognosis. Not only do they differ with respect to each other but so too with their adult equivalents. Some of the most common diseases are aut...

Aug 30th, 2021 - The clinical picture of neurosarcoidosis (NS) shares many aspects with multiple sclerosis (MS). I examine whether or not clinical measures can reliably distinguish NS mimicking MS from NS coexisting with MS, and the informative role biopsy and aut...

Aug 14th, 2021 - The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic was caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although the predominant clinical presentation is a respiratory disease, neurological manifestations are being recognized i...

Aug 10th, 2021 - Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) has been reported after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this review, we systematically included worldwide reported cases on this association. We included 30 case reports (pediatric and adults) an...

May 5th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Viral, bacterial and autoimmune etiologies account for most cases of encephalitis in children, but more than four in 10 have no recognized cause, according to a new review of medical records. "With 42% of our cases stil...

Jan 15th, 2019 - A case report: A 15-year-old female initially was seen for back pain. She was referred to orthopedics for evaluation, but when she returned for follow-up, the mother reported that she had experienced a seizure that was unrelated to an illness or f.

Nov 1st, 2018 - BERLIN—Applying the 2017 McDonald criteria to children is feasible and allows an earlier diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to data described at ECTRIMS 2018. The presence of oligoclonal bands and negativity of myelin oligodendrocyte.

Oct 12th, 2018 - BERLIN – Children with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis have a significantly increased risk of subsequent epilepsy when it occurs with oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid and seizures at presentation, Thomas Rossor, MD, reported at the an.

Jul 16th, 2018 - Discussion Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the nervous system.[1] It is typically a monophasic disease that occurs in prepubescent children; more than 80% of cases are reported in children <1...