Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2016
Abstract
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.
Volume
2016
First Page
1287690
Last Page
1287690
ISSN
2090-6846
Published In/Presented At
Zantah, M., Coyle, T. B., & Datta, D. (2016). Acute Respiratory Failure due to Neuromyelitis Optica Treated Successfully with Plasmapheresis. Case reports in pulmonology, 2016, 1287690. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/1287690
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
26989546
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article