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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| description | 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 who developed acute respiratory failure related to cervical spinal cord involvement, refractory to pulse dose steroid therapy, which resolved with plasmapheresis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3b041c1b5bb149bbb0b35d3b5f72850b2025-02-03T06:42:27ZengWileyCase Reports in Pulmonology2090-68462090-68542016-01-01201610.1155/2016/12876901287690Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with PlasmapheresisMassa Zantah0Timothy B. Coyle1Debapriya Datta2Department of Medicine, University of CT Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USADivision of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of CT Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USADivision of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of CT Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USANeuromyelitis 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 who developed acute respiratory failure related to cervical spinal cord involvement, refractory to pulse dose steroid therapy, which resolved with plasmapheresis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1287690 |
| spellingShingle | Massa Zantah Timothy B. Coyle Debapriya Datta Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis Case Reports in Pulmonology |
| title | Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis |
| title_full | Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis |
| title_fullStr | Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis |
| title_short | Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis |
| title_sort | acute respiratory failure due to neuromyelitis optica treated successfully with plasmapheresis |
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