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Risk Factors for Acute Idiopathic Transverse Myelitis

Johns Hopkins is currently enrolling new and recently diagnosed patients with idiopathic acute transverse myelitis (IATM) to study risk factors for the disease.  This is a study conducted in collaboration with investigators at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center, under the auspices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  In this exploratory study, patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire detailing demographic, socioeconomic data, information regarding illness and underlying diseases, medications, immunizations, travel history and other physician visits in the preceding 24 months prior to the onset of idiopathic acute TM.

Interested patients should contact the study coordinators: Yandong Qiang (410-955-2955), Chitra Krishnan (410-955-3129), Rosanna Setse (410-614-7797), Megan Quigg (410-955-3129), Doug Kerr (410-955-3129), Neal Halsey (410-955-6964).