Radiolabeled anti-aquaporin-4 protein antibody imaging: A valuable method for determining neuromyelitis optica

摘要

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is considered an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (GNS) that has the propensity to affect optic nerves and the spinal cord [1]. Some clinical and laboratory features of NMO, such as female predominance, longitudinally extensive spinal cord lesions, polymorphonuclear cell-dominant pleocytosis, low frequencies of oligoclonal immunoglo-bulin G (IgG) band, and detection of NMO-IgG in serum differentiated NMO from classic multiple sclerosis (MS), although sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between the two [2].