Myelitis - Diseases Associated With Myelitis

Diseases Associated With Myelitis

Demyelinating diseases such as relatively common multiple sclerosis and Devic's disease is known to be causing myelitis. Moreover, autoimmune connective tissue disease such as lupus, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, and paraneoplastic also cause the myelitis. Other reasons are not discovered yet but usually related to immune disorder.

• Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: autoimmune demyelination of the brain manifesting altered level of consciousness, acute cognitive dysfunction, behavioral changes, and seizures
• Multiple Sclerosis: demyelination of the brain and spinal cord
• Neuromyelitis optica or Devic's disease: immune attack on optic nerve and spinal cord
• Sjögren's syndrome: immune cell destroying the exocrine system of the body
• Systemic lupus erythematosus: a systemic autoimmune disease manifesting variety of neurological symptoms such as headaches, depression, seizures, cognitive dysfunction, mood disorder, cerebrovascular disease, polyneuropathy, anxiety disorder, psychosis.
• Sarcoidosis: chronic inflammatory cells form as nodules in multiple organs
• Atopy dermatitis, known as eczema: It is prevalent immune disorder in children that is reported to be related to atopy in eastern asian countries such as Japan and Korea. Atopy is characterized by enhanced IgE responses to such common environmental antigens as pollens, foods and house dust mites, and it generally is an underlying mechanism for allergic rhinitis, asthma and dermatitis. Atopic myelitis show distinctive features such as younger age at onset, non-acute onset and long duration of symptoms at admission, predominant sensory symptoms with mild weakness.

There are other associated disease usually that causes the myelitis.