To evaluate the functional recovery of chronic complete idiopathic transverse myelitis (ITM) after administration of acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF). A 28-year-old woman presented with a 4-year ...

There were only two comprehensive clinics in the world for TM until the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently opened the third multidisciplinary, comprehensive clinic for transverse myelitis at ...

1 Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center ...

SOMERSWORTH — A 42-year-old Seacoast man is home recovering from a rare spinal disorder that temporarily left him unable to walk and could keep him out of work for months if not longer. Benjamin ...

We describe a patient who developed transverse myelitis (TM) following a nerve root injection of steroids and anesthetic at L2 for radicular pain. A 42-year-old woman developed progressive lower ...

Every year, June 9 is marked as Transverse Myelitis Awareness Day, a day held to raise awareness about the rare condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord. With no known cure, the disorder ...

A 23 year-old woman presented with paresthesias of the arms and legs for two days. Neurological examination showed sensory loss from the shoulders down bilaterally and bilateral Babinski responses.

Three months ago, UK woman Helen Finchman woke up with a neck ache. She just assumed she'd slept in an uncomfortable position and went about her morning as she normally would. But as the day went on, ...

A 20 year-old woman presented with acute weakness of the right leg and loss of sensation of the left leg (consistent with a Brown-Séquard syndrome). Transverse Myelitis (TM): (Left) T2-weighted ...

Pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have paused a study of their potential coronavirus vaccine after a participant came down with an unexplained illness. A spokesperson for ...

MYELITIS is a relatively rare condition and experts are unsure of the exact cause of it. It is most common in ages 10 to 19 and 30 to 39, but can occur at any time ...