PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | optic neuritis |
| Phenotype | C0011303|demyelinating disease |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 26496907 | Acquired pediatric demyelinating diseases manifest acutely with optic neuritis, transverse myelitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or with various other acute deficits in focal or polyfocal areas of the central nervous system. |
| PubMedID- 20436750 | Have described corticosteroid dependent optic neuritis, not associated with demyelinating disease. |
| PubMedID- 22831763 | The 81% seropositivity rate in "unclassified" patients suggests that aqp4 autoimmunity accounts for a significant proportion of thai cns inflammatory demyelinating disease, especially those with optic neuritis or transverse myelitis, with or without abnormal brain mri, in whom a specific diagnosis or clear-cut treatment approach is unclear. |
| PubMedID- 20463974 | Background: neuromyelitis optica (nmo), a severe demyelinating disease, represents itself with optic neuritis and longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis. |
| PubMedID- PMC2924520 | Corticosteroid-sparing immunosupressive agents and intravenous immunoglobulins (ivig) have been reported to allow decrease in dose, and in some cases, discontinuation of oral steroids, in patients with corticosteroid-dependent autoimmune optic neuropathy and optic neuritis not associated with demyelinating disease. |
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