Inflammatory Demyelinating Central Nervous System Diseases in Childhood : Clinical and Paraclinical Profiles in 133 Patients
Joint Authors
Özakbaş, Serkan
İdiman, Egemen
Kaya, Derya
Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-6, 6 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-12-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In a retrospective review of patients with acquired demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system, 133 patients (5.6%) whose diseases started in childhood, were selected from 2369 patients, who had medical records in the Neurology Department of Dokuz Eylul University.
Out of 133, 98 had relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, 21 had secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, 8 had clinically isolated syndrome, 3 had neuromyelitis optica, 2 had Marburg disease, and 1 had radiologically isolated syndrome.
In 55 patients (41.3%), disease onset was before age 16.
Polysymptomatic presentation (22.6%) was the most common initial feature.
The EDSS scores ranged from 0 to 9 with a median of 2.0 (2.22±1.88) for 126 patients.
MRI records of 111 patients were obtained.
97 patients had clinically definite multiple sclerosis.
11 MS patients (11.3%) did not initially present the diagnostic MRI features.
All of the remaining multiple sclerosis patients fulfilled Barkhof-Tintore criteria (100%) and 88.7% fulfilled KIDMUS criteria.
Cranial MRI of NMO patients was normal.
Our findings demonstrate some important clinical and paraclinical features that can help the literature on acquired demyelinating disorders of childhood by utilizing data from Western Turkey.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kaya, Derya& İdiman, Egemen& Özakbaş, Serkan. 2012. Inflammatory Demyelinating Central Nervous System Diseases in Childhood : Clinical and Paraclinical Profiles in 133 Patients. Autoimmune Diseases،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-6.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kaya, Derya…[et al.]. Inflammatory Demyelinating Central Nervous System Diseases in Childhood : Clinical and Paraclinical Profiles in 133 Patients. Autoimmune Diseases No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-6.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Kaya, Derya& İdiman, Egemen& Özakbaş, Serkan. Inflammatory Demyelinating Central Nervous System Diseases in Childhood : Clinical and Paraclinical Profiles in 133 Patients. Autoimmune Diseases. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-511380
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-511380