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The prognosis is variable: patients may recover completely from individual attacks, but residual neurological deficits are common and sometimes severe. Unrecognized or untreated, up to 30% of patients may die in the first 5 years of their illness of an attack of severe myelitis leading to respiratory failure. A high proportion of patients will become legally blind in one or both eyes and/or have substantial residual paraparesis. The impact of early treatment with an effective long term agent is unknown, but current evidence suggests that the attack rate may be reduced by over 50% with effective immunosuppressive therapy.

The Prognosis for NMO Patients

Last updated 900 days ago by Steve Ornburn