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Nee Na Kim1, Dimitrios Champsas1, Michael Eyre1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (N.N.K., O.A.-M., Y.H.), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Neuroinflammation (N.N.K., D.C., O.A.-M., C.H., O.C., Y.H.), Institute of Neurology, University College London; Children's Neurosciences (M.E., V.L., M.L., T.R.), Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Women and Children's Health (M.E., M.L., T.R.), School of Life Course Sciences (SoLCS), King's College London; Department of Paediatrics (A.S., S.R., J.P.), Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Paediatric Neurology (M.V.C.), Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Translational and Clinical Research Sir James Spence Institute (R.F.), University of Newcastle, Royal Victoria Infirmary; Department of Neurology (R.F.), Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Neurology (R.K.), Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool; Department of Paediatric Neurology (D.R., Siobhan West), Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Neurology (E.W., Sukhvir Wright), Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Department of Neuroradiology (A.B., K.M.), Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology (E.P.F.), Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology, Rochester, MN; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (O.C.); and Department of Neuroinflammation (O.C.), National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom.

Neurology(R) Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
|October 11, 2024
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Summary

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody (MOG-Ab) encephalitis in children presents differently than acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Early immunosuppression is crucial, even with normal MRI, for MOG-Ab positive cases.

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