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A case of optic neuritis and transverse myelitis in a postpartum Ghanaian female

Author(s) -

Srikugan Lanitha,

Loganayagam Aathavan,

Kelleher Kevin

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of hospital medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.128

H-Index - 65

eISSN - 1553-5606

pISSN - 1553-5592

DOI - 10.1002/jhm.398

Subject(s) - medicine , queen (butterfly) , general hospital , optic neuritis , family medicine , pediatrics , psychiatry , multiple sclerosis , hymenoptera , botany , biology

Rapid onset visual loss with limb involvement in a postpartum female invites a number of differential diagnoses, including infectious encephalomyelitis, vasculitis, an acute demyelinating disorder, and arterial/venous sinus thrombosis. We report an interesting, but initially puzzling, case of rapidly progressive optic neuritis and transverse myelitis in a postpartum Ghanaian female, later diagnosed as neuromyelitis optica (NMO).

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