"Patients with anti-AQP4-Ab may basically need long-term relapse prevention, because they surely experience much higher relapse activity, with much worse neurological disturbance…In MOGAD patients, ...

—A large data analysis found a significantly heightened relative risk of optic neuritis in NMOSD, MOGAD, and other inflammatory diseases, supporting prompt evaluation of visual complaints in these ...

Background A 38-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with headaches and bilateral hearing loss. Brain MRI was initially suggestive of small-vessel disease developing in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a company release, Horizon Therapeutics announced results from a phase 2/3 trial demonstrating that its ...

Optic neuritis is acute inflammation of the optic nerve. Optic nerve is the nerve connecting the eye to the brain. It carries the visual signals from the retina to the brain where it is received and ...

Although existing research has shown structural differences between multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in following optic neuritis, the new report also covers non–optic ...

Transverse myelitis in a patient with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder Three agents were recently FDA approved for NMOSD in adults who are AQP4 antibody positive: eculizumab, inebilizumab-cdon, ...

Researchers in the Department of Neurology at Tohoku University, which is led by professor Masashi Aoki, have developed a classification scheme for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, a rare ...

Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve, leading to swelling and damage to the optic nerve. Symptoms include pain and vision loss. Usually this is temporary. In some cases, it may ...

Your optic nerve is important as it is essential to our sight. The optic nerve’s function is to transmit information that we see and what is formed on our retina ...