she was managed with corticoids and the case was stabilized at 1 year. Other authors reported a case of a 28-year-old women previously diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, who presented in the fourth
month of pregnancy with transverse myelitis associated with optic neuropathy, suggestive of NMO. In this case the
patient did not have such a favorable outcome, since transverse myelitis recurred postpartum and 3 years later at the
same thoracic level