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Progressive Fatal Myelopathy Secondary to Isolated Spinal Cord Vasculitis

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Neurology, December 2017
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Title
Progressive Fatal Myelopathy Secondary to Isolated Spinal Cord Vasculitis
Published in
Frontiers in Neurology, December 2017
DOI 10.3389/fneur.2017.00705
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Authors

Arie Fisher, Habib Rahman, Michael Farrell, Michael Hennessy

Abstract

A 56-year-old woman with various neurological signs which developed over a 1-year period was admitted for evaluation. MRI showed a markedly abnormal signal in the cervical spine. Despite treatment with IV steroids, she developed a progressive myelopathy, became quadriplegic, and required intubation. Immunomodulatory treatment was ineffective. The patient died 24 days after admission. Histopathological investigation revealed spinal cord necrosis with a lymphocyte predominant meningovascular inflammation involving arteries and veins along with evidence of prior occlusive disease of the anterior spinal artery. The changes were confined to the spinal cord. The present case represents an unusual cause of myelitis for which early and aggressive immunomodulatory treatment may have influenced outcomes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 25%
Researcher 1 25%
Student > Postgraduate 1 25%
Student > Master 1 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 50%
Unknown 2 50%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 June 2018.
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#16,348,670
of 24,859,977 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Neurology
#6,809
of 13,948 outputs
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#266,565
of 451,737 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Neurology
#97
of 198 outputs
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