We present a patient with intractable neuropathic pain because of radiation-induced transverse myelitis unresponsive to medical treatment. After a successful trial of spinal cord stimulation, a permanent stimulator was implanted. Improvement was noted in verbal pain score, medication usage and function. Spinal cord stimulation may offer a therapeutic option for patients with neuropathic pain re...

AIDS myelitis can be difficult to diagnose clinically in the face of a concomitant peripheral polyradiculoneuropathy. Both entities may be caused by viral agents [1 , 2]. In this case report, we describe the MR appearance of the initial spinal cord lesion and the subsequently demonstrated resolution of the lesion. To our knowledge, AIDS myelitis has not been demonstrated radiographically in the...

IMPORTANCE Dural arteriovenous fistula is a very rare cause of myelitis that can only be treated interventionally or surgically. OBSERVATIONS A man in his 30s with paraparesis and urinary incontinence had a long-segment thoracic lesion on spinal magnetic resonance imaging. Transverse myelitis was the initial diagnosis. Although a pulse steroid and intravenous immunoglobulin treatment regimen ...

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a condition characterized by attacks of severe bilateral optic neuritis and myelitis. Historically, the prototypic syndrome was diagnosed only when these symptoms occurred nearly simultaneously as a monophasic illness. However, a contemporary view acknowledges that most commonly this condition is a relapsing disorder characterized by recurrent attacks, usually of u...

More or less severe asthma attacks can damage the CNS and peripheral system in adults and children, both directly causing hypoxia and indirectly with the production of autoimmune antibodies. The pathogenic mechanism is still unknown; cytokines, TNFs, interleukins, free radicals and nitric oxide are often involved as causative factors for the disorders [1,2]. In this review we focus our attentio...

MYELITIS as part of a post vaccinial encephalomyelitis is well known, and histological changes occurring in the spinal cord were fully described in the earlier case records (Turnbull and McIntosh, 1926). The purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to the fact that myelitis uncomplicated by encephalitis also occurs as a sequel to vaccination. The following case which I have recently ha...

We present an interesting case of conus medullaris cavernoma that was initially treated as transverse myelitis. Haemorrhagic lumbar puncture led us to perform magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which showed the presence of a cavernous angioma at the D12-L1 level. The total excision of the lesion was followed by dramatic improvement. We suggest that MR imaging be performed early in all suspected c...

A 7-year-old boy presented with fever and ataxia 20 days after oral polio vaccination. Magnetic resonance imaging showed extensive myelitis, involving both anterior and posterior horns of the gray matter. Complete posttreatment recovery was evident. Postvaccinal myelitis after oral polio vaccination, of either infectious or immune mediated etiology, is very rare entity that should be promptly r...