Magnetic Resonance Image in Monitor and Diagnosis of Patients with Neuromyelitis Optica

Table 1

Comparison of clinical data of NMO and MS patients.

	NMO	MS
People	50	50
General clinical data
Gender ratio (M/F)	01 : 03.5	01 : 01.4
Age of onset (years)	37 ± 16.79	35 ± 9.97
Course of disease (year)	3.3 ± 5.63	1.5 ± 3.41
Annual relapses	1.27 ± 0.96	1.41 ± 0.81
Onset form:
Acute myelitis (case)	12	16
Acute optic neuritis (example)	33	34
AQP4-IgG (+)	34	1
Head MRI abnormal rate	29/50	45/50
Onset with immune disease	13	0

Note. indicates that compared with MS group,  < 0.05.