Myelitis

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Myelitis Classification and external resources
ICD-10	G04.-G05.
ICD-9	323
DiseasesDB	29461
MeSH	D009187

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Myelitis is a disease involving swelling of the spinal cord, which disrupts central nervous system functions linking the brain and limbs.

Symptoms and signs

Symptoms vary by region of the CNS affected.

• fever
• headaches
• tingling
• Bladder dysfunction (loss of bladder control)
• pain
• Meningeal signs may develop
• (central or peripheral paresis
• Numbness; Altered sensation, Sensorimotor paralysis below the level of the inflammation (Absent tendon reflexes below the level of the inflammation), loss of feeling
• Leg weakness
• Arm weakness
• Paresthesia
• Back pain
• Leg pain
• Arm pain
• Bowel dysfunction
• Muscle spasms
• Malaise
• Anorexia
• Leg paresthesia
• Urinary retention
• Sexual dysfunction
• Fecal incontinence
• Abdominal muscle paralysis

Diagnosis

• Spinal MRI
• Myelography

Differential Diagnosis of Causes of Myelitis

Infections

• Certain viruses - causing viral myelitis:

• Herpesvirus
• Polio virus
• HIV

• Syphilis

Myelitis as a complication

Other conditions that might have Myelitis as a complication might be potential underlying conditions. The list of conditions listing Myelitis as a complication includes:

• Gnathostoma Infection
• Poxviridae disease

Myelitis as a symptom

• Bing-Neel syndrome

Prognosis

Untreated myelitis may rapidly lead to a permanently damaged spinal cord.

See also

• Transverse myelitis

v • d • e Pathology of the nervous system, primarily CNS (G00-G47, 320-349)
Inflammatory diseases of the CNS	Meningitis (Arachnoiditis) - Encephalitis - Myelitis - Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated) - Tropical spastic paraparesis
Systemic atrophies primarily affecting the CNS	Huntington's Spinocerebellar ataxia (Friedreich's ataxia, Ataxia telangiectasia, Hereditary spastic paraplegia) Spinal muscular atrophy: Werdnig-Hoffman - Kugelberg-Welander - Fazio Londe - MND (ALS, PMA, PBP, PP, PLS)
Extrapyramidal and movement disorders	Parkinson's disease - Neuroleptic malignant syndrome - Postencephalitic parkinsonism - Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - Progressive supranuclear palsy - Striatonigral degeneration Dystonia/Dyskinesia (Spasmodic torticollis, Meige's, Blepharospasm) Essential tremor - Myoclonus - Lafora Chorea (Choreoathetosis) - Restless legs - Stiff person
Other degenerative / demyelinating diseases	Alzheimer's - Pick's - Alpers' - Dementia with Lewy bodies - Leigh's demyelinating: Multiple sclerosis - Devic's - Central pontine myelinolysis - Transverse myelitis
Seizure/epilepsy	Focal (Simple partial, Complex partial) - Generalised (Tonic-clonic, Absence, Atonic, Benign familial neonatal) Lennox-Gastaut - West - Epilepsia partialis continua - Status epilepticus (Complex partial status epilepticus)
Headache	Migraine (Familial hemiplegic) - Cluster - Vascular - Tension
Vascular	Transient ischemic attack (Amaurosis fugax, Transient global amnesia) Cerebrovascular disease (MCA, ACA, PCA, Foville's, Millard-Gubler, Lateral medullary, Weber's, Lacunar stroke)
Sleep disorders	Insomnia - Hypersomnia - Sleep apnea (Ondine's curse) - Narcolepsy - Cataplexy - Kleine-Levin - Circadian rhythm sleep - Delayed sleep phase - Advanced sleep phase
Other	Intracranial hypertension: Hydrocephalus (Normal pressure) - Idiopathic intracranial hypertension Encephalopathy - Brain herniation - Cerebral edema - Reye's - Syringomyelia - Syringobulbia - Spinal cord compression

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