Tuberculous myelitis: a prospective follow-up study

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Background: Prospective studies regarding tuberculous myelitis are lacking. We aimed to prospectively evaluate patients with tuberculous myelitis to identify the features that distinguish tuberculous myelitis from other myelitis. Methods: This was a prospective study. Patients presenting with paraparesis/quadriparesis, and MRI showing myelitis were included. All patients were subjected to clinical, neuroimaging, and laboratory evaluation. Diagnosis of definite tuberculous myelitis was made if GeneXpert test in CSF was positive. Probable tuberculous myelitis was diagnosed if there was evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere in the body. Patients were treated with methylprednisolone and antituberculosis treatment. Patients were followed for 6 months. We compared the clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging parameters and response to treatment of tuberculous myelitis with other myelitis. P values were adjusted using the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure to control false discovery rate. Results: We enrolled 52 patients. Eighteen (34.6%) patients had tuberculous myelitis. Headache (P = 0.018) was significantly more common in tuberculous myelitis. The CSF protein (P < 0.001), and CSF cell count (P < 0.001) were significantly higher in tuberculous myelitis. On neuroimaging, a LETM was common in tuberculous myelitis. Spinal meningeal enhancement (14; 77.8%), extra-axial collection, and CSF loculation (6; 33.4%), arachnoiditis (3;16.7%), and concomitant spinal tuberculoma (2;11.1%) were other common imaging features of tuberculous myelitis. Tuberculous myelitis patients showed a better response (P = 0.025) to treatment. Conclusion: Tuberculous myelitis was seen in approximately 35% of all myelitis cases, in a high tuberculosis endemic zone. Headache, markedly elevated CSF protein and spinal meningeal enhancement were distinguishing features. Tuberculous myelitis patients responded well to corticosteroids.

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Khan, M. I., Garg, R. K., Rizvi, I., Malhotra, H. S., Kumar, N., Jain, A., … Jain, P. (2022). Tuberculous myelitis: a prospective follow-up study. Neurological Sciences, 43(9), 5615–5624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-022-06221-6

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