Abstract
Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) is an autoimmune neurodegenerative disease, which severely compromises the patients affected, mainly in the regions of the optic nerve and the spinal cord. It is a rare disease (with a predilection for women, especially after the third decade of life) in which the presence of anti-aquaporin 4 antibodies (anti-AQP4 or NMO-IgG) is responsible for causing the typic…