Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in South of Tunisia: A rare entity with low seroprevalence of anti-aquaporin 4 autoantibodies.

CONCLUSION: NMOSD seem to represent a rare etiology of optic neuritis and/or myelitis in Tunisian patients. Despite its low global seroprevalence in our study population, anti-AQP4 appears to be a very clinically relevant marker for NMOSD diagnosis. Repeating the screening in case of initial negativity could be interesting in clinical practice. PMID: 31668529 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31668529?dopt=Abstract

Source: Revue Neurologique - November 2, 2019 Category: Neurology Tags: Rev Neurol (Paris) Source Type: research