Neuromyelitis optica: Evaluation of 871 attacks and 1,153 treatment courses

Corresponding Author

Ingo Kleiter MD

Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum

Anna Gahlen BMed

Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum

Nadja Borisow MD

NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medicine, and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Katrin Fischer MD

Department of Neurology, Asklepios Clinic Teupitz, Teupitz

Klaus-Dieter Wernecke PhD

Clinical Research Organisation Sostana and Charité University Medicine, Berlin

Brigitte Wegner PhD

Clinical Research Organisation Sostana and Charité University Medicine, Berlin

Kerstin Hellwig MD

Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum

Florence Pache MD

NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medicine, and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Department of Neurology and Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Charité University Medicine, Berlin

Klemens Ruprecht MD

Department of Neurology and Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Charité University Medicine, Berlin

Joachim Havla MD

Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Medical Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Markus Krumbholz MD

Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Medical Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Tania Kümpfel MD

Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Medical Campus Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Orhan Aktas MD

Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

Hans-Peter Hartung MD

Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

Marius Ringelstein MD

Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

Christian Geis MD

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg

Christoph Kleinschnitz MD

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg

Achim Berthele MD

Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich

Bernhard Hemmer MD

Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology, Munich

Klemens Angstwurm MD

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg

Jan-Patrick Stellmann MD

Institute for Neuroimmunology and MS and Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg

Simon Schuster MD

Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg

Martin Stangel MD

Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neurochemistry, Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover

Florian Lauda MD

Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm

Hayrettin Tumani MD

Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm

Christoph Mayer MD

Department of Neurology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt

Lena Zeltner MD

Department of Neurology and Stroke and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen

Ulf Ziemann MD

Department of Neurology and Stroke and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen

Ralf Linker MD

Department of Neurology, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen

Matthias Schwab MD

Hans Berger Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena

Martin Marziniak MD

Department of Neurology, University of Münster, Münster

Florian Then Bergh MD

Department of Neurology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig

Ulrich Hofstadt-van Oy MD

Department of Neurology, Bayreuth Medical Center, Bayreuth

Oliver Neuhaus MD

Department of Neurology, SRH Hospital Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen

Alexander Winkelmann MD

Department of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock

Wael Marouf MD

Department of Neurology, HELIOS Hanse Hospital Stralsund, Stralsund

Jürgen Faiss MD

Department of Neurology, Asklepios Clinic Teupitz, Teupitz

Brigitte Wildemann MD

Molecular Neuroimmunology Group, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg

Friedemann Paul MD

NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Charité University Medicine, and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin

Department of Neurology and Clinical and Experimental Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Charité University Medicine, Berlin

Sven Jarius MD

Molecular Neuroimmunology Group, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg

Corinna Trebst MD

Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

on behalf of the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group

Affiliated members of the Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group are available as an online supplementary file.