Brief overview What is neuromyelitis optica (NMO)? A rare disease with mostly episodic inflammation in the central nervous system, especially in the optic nerve, spinal cord and brain stem. Today, medicine speaks of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and thus refers to closely related clinical pictures. Symptoms: inflammation of the optic nerve with reduced vision … Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO): Symptoms, Therapy, Prognosis
Differential diagnosis – what is that? A patient usually comes to the doctor with symptoms that he or she cannot assign to a specific disease. The doctor’s task is to make a differential diagnosis through a patient interview, physical and apparatus examinations. The differential diagnosis includes diseases that occur with similar or the same symptoms … Differential Diagnosis
Differential diagnoses of multiple sclerosis Neuromyelitis optica (NMO, Devic’s syndrome) was long considered a subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS), but represents a disease pattern of its own. Common to both diseases is the demyelinating inflammation (demyelination of the nerve sheaths). In NMO, the spinal cord and optic nerve are particularly affected. Typical is a long-distance … Differential diagnoses of multiple sclerosis | Differential Diagnosis
Differential diagnoses of depression In the following, different differential diagnoses of depression are described. Somatogenic depression can occur as a consequence or accompanying symptom of a physical illness; it is then referred to as symptomatic depression. Examples are hypothyroidism, high blood pressure, diabetes or tumor diseases. Symptomatic depression can also occur as a side effect … Differential diagnoses of depression | Differential Diagnosis
Neuromyelitis optica is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system and leads to degradation of certain insulating nerve sheaths (medical term demyelination). As a result, inflammation of the optic nerve develops over a period of between a few months and two years. This occurs either unilaterally or bilaterally. In addition, the spinal … Neuromyelitis Optica: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment
