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Diagnosing Anti-MOG Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

April 6, 2020 • By Thomas R. Collins

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“There are many different models for how we treat autoimmune or autoinflammatory brain disease—care has to be multi-disciplinary. Many of us now have multidisciplinary clinics where we’re actually seeing the patients together, discussing them in real time with rheumatology, neurology, psychiatry and neuropsychology, speech and physical medicine,” Dr. Wells said. “Keeping in mind that multi-disciplinary approach really serves these patients.”

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Thomas R. Collins is a freelance writer living in South Florida.

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  1. Graus F, Titulaer MJ, Balu R, et al. A clinical approach to diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis. Lancet Neurol. 2016 Apr;15(4):391–404.
  2. Cellucci T, Tyrrell PN, Twilt M, et al. Distinct phenotype clusters in childhood inflammatory brain diseases: Implications for diagnostic evaluation. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Mar;66(3):750–756.
  3. Papathanasiou A, Tanasescu R, Davis J, et al. MOG-IgG-associated demyelination: Focus on atypical features, brain histopathology and concomitant autoimmunity. J Neurol. 2019 Oct 22. [Epub ahead of print]

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Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (anti-MOG) autoimmune encephalomyelitis, brain, Children, encephalomyelitis, Pediatric

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