Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
Anti-Aquaporin-4 Antibody-Seronegative NMO Spectrum Disorder with Baló's Concentric Lesions
Hiroki MasudaMasahiro MoriKaoru KatayamaYuriko KikkawaSatoshi Kuwabara
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2013 Volume 52 Issue 13 Pages 1517-1521

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A 34-year-old woman developed simultaneous bilateral severe optic neuritis and subsequent myelitis. Two months after the first attack, she developed a headache and dysesthesia in the left arm. Brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple hyperintense lesions in the white matter of the right hemisphere, some of which were Baló-like concentric lesions. Our diagnosis was neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder with Baló's concentric sclerosis (BCS), although the patient was negative for anti-aquaporin-4 (anti-APQ4) antibodies. Our case suggests that Baló's concentric sclerosis overlaps with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and that this overlapping is caused by a mechanism that does not involve anti-AQP4 antibodies.

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