Chloride imbalance is involved in the pathogenesis of optic neuritis in neuromyelitis optica

Autor: Tetsuya Akaishi, Noriko Himori, Toru Nakazawa, Masashi Aoki, Ichiro Nakashima, Takayuki Takeshita, Toshiyuki Takahashi
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of neuroimmunology. 320
ISSN: 1872-8421
Popis: Chloride imbalance between the serum and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been recently shown to exist in the acute phase of neuromyelitis optica (NMO). In this report, we studied the relation between the quotient of chloride (QCl) and the severity of optic neuritis (ON) in NMO patients. There was a positive correlation (R = 0.67; p
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