Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis

Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) is a demyelinating autoimmune disease involving the central nervous system. Acute respiratory failure from cervical myelitis due to NMO is known to occur but is uncommon in monophasic disease and is treated with high dose steroids. We report a case of a patient with NMO wh...

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Main Authors: Massa Zantah, Timothy B. Coyle, Debapriya Datta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Pulmonology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1287690
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