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== Risk Stratification and Prognosis==
* Prognosis varies with the severity of the neurologic disease.  Some patients will not survive the acute illness, and some will be left with neurologic sequelae.  Some remarkably recover completely.
* The disease is characteristically monophasic, but descriptions of multiphasic disease have been reported.
* Affected children will often suffer from persistent seizures and behavioral and learning disorders.  Adults are somewhat less likely than children to have neurologic sequelae.


== Treatment ==
== Treatment ==

Revision as of 20:44, 20 November 2012

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
ICD-10 G04.0
ICD-9 323.61
DiseasesDB 158
MeSH D004673

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Treatment

  • There are case reports of improvement with treatment with plasma exhange and intravenous immunoglobulin in patients who have not responded to steroids.
  • The first treatment is usually steroids and intensive care is often required.

Pharmacotherapy

Acute Pharmacotherapies

  • Most patients are treated with pulse intravenous methylprednisolone with subsequent taper.

Acknowledgements

The content on this page was first contributed by: ELLISON L. SMITH, M.D.

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External links

  • Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)Information page-> including pathogenesis/aetiology/treatment/prognosis at adem.org
  • Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) at myelitis.org
  • Murthy J (2002). "Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis". Neurology India. 50 (3): 238–43. PMID 12391446.


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