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What is NMO-IgG (Devic's Test)?

NMO-IgG blood test is done to establish the diagnosis of neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and related disorders (eg, relapsing transverse myelitis or relapsing optic neuritis) to distinguish them from multiple sclerosis (MS) early in the course of disease because optimal treatments differ for NMO and MS.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Other 2 1 Efficacy_moderate
Optic nerve atrophy 1 0

See 1 patient currently having NMO-IgG (Devic's Test)

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of NMO-IgG (Devic's Test)

Always
 1 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of NMO-IgG (Devic's Test)

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 1 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of NMO-IgG (Devic's Test)

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 100%

Report created on May 28, 2012.