Related Conditions

A brief but intense attack of inflammation in the brain, spinal cord and occasionally the optic nerves that damages the brain’s myelin.

A rare disorder of the central nervous system in which the myelin is damaged.

A slowly progressive, chronic myelopathy (disease of the spinal cord) seen in some people infected with the HTLV-1 virus.

A disorder in which immune system cells and antibodies mistakenly attack and destroy myelin cells in the optic nerves and the spinal cord.

A very rare, progressive, degenerative, demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system that usually begins in childhood.

A neurological disorder caused by inflammation across both sides of one level or segment of the spinal cord.