Demyelinating disease
Under a demyelinating disease or demyelinating disease is understood as damage to the central nervous system, which is thus leads to a demyelination of nerve cells or those axons to the destruction of the medulla.
Essentially, it involves the
- Multiple sclerosis ( MS)
- Baló disease or encephalitis periaxialis concentrica
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM )
- Marburg variant of acute multiple sclerosis
- Neuromyelitis optica ( Devic's syndrome)
- Transverse myelitis
- Guillain -Barre syndrome
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
- Miller Fisher syndrome
- Acute Motor Axonal Neuropathy
In the ICD -10, they are grouped under G35 - G37 as " Demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system."
In animals come as demyelinating diseases before:
- Visna of sheep
- Disease in neurology