Romana Höftberger, María Sepulveda, Thaís Armangue, Yolanda Blanco, Kevin Rostásy, Alvaro Cobo Calvo, Javier Olascoaga, Lluís Ramió-Torrentà, Markus Reindl, Julián Benito-León, Bonaventura Casanova, Georgina Arrambide, Lidia Sabater, Francesc Graus, Josep Dalmau, Albert Saiz
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to report the frequency and implications of antibodies to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG-ab) in adults with demyelinating syndromes suspicious for neuromyelitis optica (NMO). METHODS: Samples from 174 patients (48 NMO, 84 longitudinally extensive myelitis (LETM), 39 optic neuritis (ON), and three acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) who presented initially with isolated LETM) were retrospectively examined for AQP4-ab and MOG-ab using cell-based assays...
June 2015: Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical and Laboratory Research