myelitis

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Examples

• One participant in the AstraZeneca clinical trial in Britain developed symptoms consistent with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological disorder characterized by inflammation of the spinal cord, but the diagnosis was not confirmed.

• The crazy thing, though, is that the way that the FDA found out about the case of transverse myelitis was the same way the public found out, which was through a leaked story to, I think, STAT News.

• “In the history of vaccine development, cases of myelitis are not especially surprising,” says Carlos Pardo-Villamizar, a clinical neurologist and director of the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center.

• Witness the frightful itching sometimes experienced during the progress of chronic myelitis.

• Affections of the Spinal Cord are extremely rare, but paraplegia from myelitis has been observed.

• Examination of the spinal (lumbar) cord showed acute disseminated myelitis.

• The symptoms are mainly referable to the nervous system, causing a transverse myelitis and paraplegia.

• In another group of cases myelitis is a result of the action of organisms or their toxins.