Second, we focused only on acute noncompressive myelopathies resulting from SCI or NMOSD; thus, other aetiologies, such as vascular malformation (e.g., arteriovenous malformations or fistulas), infection, autoimmune processes and spinal cord lesions related to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibodies, were not included13,38. Here, OMG is linked to infection.