[Clinical features of ultra longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis].

Objective: To analyze the clinical features of ultra longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (uLETM).

Methods: Four first-onset uLETM patients hospitalized during September 2009 and March 2011 were recruited and retrospectively analyzed for clinical and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) features, as well as therapeutic profiles and prognoses.

Results: The male-to-female ratio was 1:3 and the age-of-onset 29 - 33 years old.

[The expression and clinical implications of glucocorticoid receptor isoforms in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in myasthenia gravis].

Objective: To evaluate the expression of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) alpha and GRbeta in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients of myasthenia gravis (MG). To investigate the relationship between the expression level of GR and glucocorticoid (GC) therapeutic effects to MG patients.

Methods: The clinical score was recorded and used to assessing the therapeutic effects.

[The characteristics of enhanced gadolinium DTPA brain magnetic resonance images in 298 multiple sclerosis patients].

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of enhanced brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with gadolinium-DTPA (GD) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Methods: Brain enhanced MRI were studied in 186 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis. 298 MRI enhanced lesions were followed every 4 weeks and the study lasted 3 months to 2 years.