Does it sound creepy that half of the patients with myelitis sequelae are completely blind? In fact, its harm is not limited to this. The following article will introduce it to everyone!

The harm of sequela of myelitis is:

1. Blindness: The onset age is 5 ~ 60 years old, and the most is 2 1 ~ 4 1 year old. There are many children, both men and women can get sick. Acute transverse or disseminated myelitis and bilateral simultaneous or successive optic neuritis are the characteristic manifestations of the disease, which appear continuously in a short time, leading to blindness.

2. Causing paraplegia: Acute transverse myelitis is an acute progressive inflammatory demyelinating lesion of the spinal cord. It has been proved that most of them are MS manifestations, showing monophasic or chronic polyphasic recurrence. Disseminated myelitis is common in clinic, with asymmetric and incomplete signs and rapid progress (hours or days).

3. It is easy to relapse: most patients with NOM have a monophasic course, 70% of them have paraplegia within a few days, about half of them are completely blind, and a few patients have a recurrent course, of which about 65,438+0/3 have paraplegia. About14 has visual impairment, and the interval between clinical events is several months to half a year. Isolated, myelitis can recur many times in the next three years.

4. Optic nerve injury: Patients with acute optic neuritis lose part or all of their monocular vision within hours or days. Some patients have intraorbital pain one or two days before vision loss, with obvious eye movement or compression, and optic neuritis or retrobulbar optic neuritis can be seen in the fundus.