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Esther Melamed1, Michael Levy1, Patrick J Waters1, Douglas Kazutoshi Sato1, Jeffrey L Bennett1, Gareth R John1, Douglas C Hooper1, Albert Saiz1, Amit Bar-Or1, Ho Jin Kim1, Lakha Pandit1, Maria Isabel Leite1, Nasrin Asgari1, Najib Kissani1, Rogier Hintzen1, Romain Marignier1, Sven Jarius1, John Marcelletti1, Terry J Smith1, Michael R Yeaman1, May H Han1, Orhan Aktas, Metha Apiwattanakul, Brenda Banwell, Denis Bichuetti, Simon Broadley, Philippe Cabre, Tanuja Chitnis, Jerome De Seze, Kazuo Fujihara, Benjamin Greenberg, Kerstin Hellwig, Raffaele Iorio, Sven Jarius1, Eric Klawiter, Ingo Kleiter, Marco Lana-Peixoto, Kevin O'Connor, Jacqueline Palace, Friedman Paul, Naraporn Prayoonwiwat, Klemens Ruprecht, Olaf Stuve, Thomas Tedder, Silvia Tenembaum, Juan P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Katja van Herle, Danielle van Pelt, Pablo Villoslada, Emmanuelle Waubant, Brian Weinshenker, Dean Wingerchuk, Jens Würfel, Scott Zamvil.
Abstract
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) (and NMO spectrum disorder) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the CNS primarily affecting spinal cord and optic nerves. Reliable and sensitive biomarkers for onset, relapse, and progression in NMO are urgently needed because of the heterogeneous clinical presentation, severity of neurologic disability following relapses, and variability of therapeutic response. Detecting aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibodies (AQP4-IgG or NMO-IgG) in serum supports the diagnosis of seropositive NMO. However, whether AQP4-IgG levels correlate with disease activity, severity, response to therapy, or long-term outcomes is unclear. Moreover, biomarkers for patients with seronegative NMO have yet to be defined and validated. Collaborative international studies hold great promise for establishing and validating biomarkers that are useful in therapeutic trials and clinical management. In this review, we discuss known and potential biomarkers for NMO.Entities:
Year: 2015 PMID: 26236760 PMCID: PMC4516398 DOI: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000000134
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm ISSN: 2332-7812