What is opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome?
A rare neurological disorder called opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome is an autoimmune disorder that attacks the brain, often after viral infection. This disorder, also known as "dancing eyes/dance legs" or kinsbourne syndrome, can affect patients of any age, first manifested by twinkling eyes and muscles. Finally, a position or walking becomes strenuous, as well as speaking, consuming or thinking clearly.
Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome is marked with four separate conditions that may seem almost immediately. Opsoclonus refers to uncontrollable eye twitching, causing a dance effect. Myoclonus concerns muscular cramps that come and leave, affect the whole body. Also common for suffering this syndrome is ataxia, the overall lack of muscle coordination, which prevents the most common movements, from walking to eating. Finally, encephalopathy prevents the brain clearly thinking. Everything combines and creates a patient who cannot control movement is lethargic, D often full of rage.
According to the Myoclonus National Pediatric Center, opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome, the body often follows the body fighting with tumor growth or infected with various viral infections. Tumors are found in about half of the patients suffering and viral infections have recently been treated in many others. Although in 2011 the exact cause of this disorder is not known, many scientists believe that antibodies produced by the body's immune system may unintentionally attack brain cells in an effort to get rid of the body of the invasive tumor or virus.
Doctors who treat opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome will try to find out whether the tumor is present by ordering a number of radiological tests. If a tumor is found, it will try to remove it. This often erades the syndrome in Childeren because the body no longer feels the attacking presence. For adults, however, thistry E is more likely to continue after removal of the tumor.
no matterWhether a tumor is found, doctors regularly prescribe the regime of adrenocorticotrophic hormone shots to treat opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome. In a series of injections for 20 days, this hormone causes the adrenal gland of the body to produce more cortisol, resulting in 80 to 90 percent of the recovery rate in children, with a smaller percentage of recovery in adults.
Further medicines could be prescribed to move this syndrome to remission. Intravenous immunoglobulins are human antibodies that can increase the body's immune response. In general, chemoteraphia and steroid therapy are also recommended. Although most patients are recovering, many of them are susceptible to recurrence when the body is experiencing a new disease.