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Treatment of neuromyelitis optica: Review and recommendations
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Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease preferentially targeting the optic nerves and spinal cord. Once regarded as a variant of multiple sclerosis (MS), NMO is now recognized to be a different disease with unique pathology and immunopathogenesis that does not respond to traditional MS immunomodulators such as interferons. Preventive therapy in NMO has focused on a range of immunosuppressive medications, none of which have been validated in a rigorous randomized tria...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders More from this journal
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 180-187
- Publication date:
- 2012-10-01
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- ISSN:
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2211-0348
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English
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pubs:351123
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pubs:351123
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351123
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2012-12-19
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- Elsevier BV
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. The full text of this article is not available in ORA. You may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link above.
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