A Case of Recurrent Transverse Myelitis Associated With Anti-Ro (SS-A) and Anti-La (SS-B) Antibodies
Mi-Yeon Eun, MD, Seok Hung Youl, MD, Seong Jae Choi, MD, PhD, Do-Young Kwon, MD, PhD, Moon Ho Park, MD, PhD, Byung-Jo Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Neurology, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Ansan, Korea
Immune-mediated inflammation is one of the important causes of transverse myelitis (TM). Recently,possible association between non-organ specific autoantibodies and development of TM has been proposed. And these biomarkers are considered to be related with recurrence of TM. Although anti-Ro antibody and anti-La antibody is the intriguing biomarkers of transverse meylitis, there is no report of recurrent transverse myelitis associated with anti-Ro antibody and anti-La antibody in orea.
We described a forty 45-year-old woman who presented recurrent transverse myelitis associated with anti-Ro antibody and anti-La antibody.
Journal of Multiple Sclerosis 1(1):20-22, 2010
