title: 'Noteomielite' accompanied by acute amaurosis (1844). An early case of neuromyelitis optica.
abstract: So far, only very little is known about the early history of neuromyelitis optica (Devic's syndrome). Here, we discuss a then widely recognized but now forgotten 1844 report by the Genoese physician Giovanni Battista Pescetto (1806-1884) on a 42-year-old man, who simultaneously developed acute amaurosis and cervical myelitis. Pescetto's report represents the earliest account of a case of neuromyelitis optica in the Western literature known so far.
authors: Division of Molecular Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. sven.jarius@med.uni-heidelberg.de
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Jarius
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Wildemann
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001766:Blindness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009471:Neuromyelitis Optica / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*