Sonali Ajwani, Brian G Weinshenker, Caterina Giannini, Thomas M Habermann, Yucai Wang, Pamela Skrabek, Abedallah Balusha, Michel Toledano, Susan E Horsman, Claudia Francesca Lucchinetti, Eoin P Flanagan
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Abstract
Subacute cognitive decline and imbalance in aquaporin-4-antibody-seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (AQP4+NMOSD) treated with mycophenolate has a broad differential diagnosis, including cerebral involvement of AQP4+NMOSD, infections, or other complications of immunosuppression. In this article, we highlight the diagnostic and treatment approach in a patient with AQP4+NMOSD who developed multifocal brain lesions.
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Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation is an official journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation will be the premier peer-reviewed journal in neuroimmunology and neuroinflammation. This journal publishes rigorously peer-reviewed open-access reports of original research and in-depth reviews of topics in neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation, affecting the full range of neurologic diseases including (but not limited to) Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS, tauopathy, and stroke; multiple sclerosis and NMO; inflammatory peripheral nerve and muscle disease, Guillain-Barré and myasthenia gravis; nervous system infection; paraneoplastic syndromes, noninfectious encephalitides and other antibody-mediated disorders; and psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Clinical trials, instructive case reports, and small case series will also be featured.