Around the same time she took a sabbatical to diagnosis and recover from transverse myelitis, a neurological condition caused by a virus in the spine, mostly likely picked up on one of her African expeditions.
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A proposed special clinical presentation is the " longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis " ( LETM ) which is defined as a TM with a spinal cord lesion that extends over 3 or more vertebral segments.
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Sanjay Keswani, assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins, said he hoped to begin a trial this year using EPO to treat transverse myelitis, an inflammatory disease of the spinal cord that resembles multiple sclerosis.
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Diagnosed with transverse myelitis at the age of 24, she began playing wheelchair basketball in 1991 and participated in the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders, at three Paralympics from 1992 to 2000.
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Other signs can affect organ systems similar to systemic lupus erythematosus ( least common, affecting < 5 % of patients ) Symptoms of the nervous system include : Autoimmune cerebellar ataxia; Guillain Barr?syndrome; transverse myelitis.
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A few years after his retirement he was diagnosed with a degenerative syndrome of the central nervous system, later revealed to be transverse myelitis, which causes damage to the spine, and forced him into a wheelchair.
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On June 13, 2016, Jordison revealed that he suffers from transverse myelitis, a neurological disease which temporarily cost him the use of his legs and caused him to be unable to play the drums before rehabilitation.
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In 2014, the FDA approved two additional possible adverse events on the vaccination label for ADEM ( acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ), and transverse myelitis, with permission to also add " difficulty walking " to the package inserts.
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Recovery from transverse myelitis usually begins between weeks 2 and 12 following onset and may continue for up to 2 years in some patients and as many as 80 % of individuals with transverse myelitis are left with lasting disabilities.
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Recovery from transverse myelitis usually begins between weeks 2 and 12 following onset and may continue for up to 2 years in some patients and as many as 80 % of individuals with transverse myelitis are left with lasting disabilities.
