{"id":2430,"date":"2011-05-24T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neuronmo\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:28:59","slug":"neuronmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/neuronmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Neuromyelitis optica (NMO; Devic syndrome) is a clinically defined, severe CNS demyelinating syndrome characterized by optic neuritis (ON) and acute myelitis; the presence of CNS symptoms outside the optic nerves and spinal cord has until recently excluded the diagnosis.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDiagnosis requires all absolute criterion and one major supportive criteria or two minor supportive criteria<\/p>\n<p>Absolute criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Optic neuritis<\/li>\n<li>Acute myelitis<\/li>\n<li>No evidence of clinical disease outside of the optic nerve or spinal cord<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Major supportive criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Negative brain MRI at onset (does not meet criteria for multiple sclerosis)<\/li>\n<li>Spinal cord MRI with signal abnormality extending over &gt;\/=3 vertebral segments<\/li>\n<li>CSF pleocytosis of &gt;50 WBC\/mm3 or &gt;5 PMNs\/mm3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minor supportive criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bilateral optic neuritis<\/li>\n<li>Severe optic neuritis with fixed visual acuity worse than 20\/200 in at least one eye<\/li>\n<li>Severe, fixed, attack-related weakness (MRC &lt;\/=2) in one or more limbs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wingerchuk DM, Lennon VA, Pittock SJ, Lucchinetti CF, Weinshenker BG. Revised diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica. Neurology. 2006 May 23;66(10):1485-9.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16717206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Saiz A, Zuliani L, Blanco Y, Tavolato B, Giometto B, Graus F; Spanish-Italian NMO Study Group. Revised diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica (NMO). Application in a series of suspected patients. J Neurol. 2007 Sep;254(9):1233-7.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/17401734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created May 24, 2011<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16,15,14,13,1217,1216,1215,1214,8,7],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-neuromielitis","tag-neuromyelitis","tag-nmo","tag-optica","tag-revisados","tag-revised"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9334,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/9334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}