Multiple sclerosisMyelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease that is challenging to differentiate from multiple sclerosis (MS), as the clinical phenotypes overlap, and people with MOGAD can fulfil the current MRI-based ...
Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis It can be hard todiagnose MSsince its symptoms can be the same as those of many other nerve disorders. If your doctor thinks you have it, they’ll want you to see a specialist who treats the brain and nervous system, called aneurologist. They’ll ask you abou...
Doctors may use MRI to help make a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. (Photo Credit: Cavan Images/Getty Images) McDonald Criteria for MS The McDonald criteria, named for neurologist Ian McDonald, is a set of measures doctors follow to help them diagnose MS more accurately and quickly. First publis...
MRI is the technique of choice for the diagnosis ofmultiple sclerosisand shows occult disease in 80% of affected individuals at the time of first presentation (Figure 10–1). The finding of three or morewhite matter lesionson T2-weighted MRI, especially if one of these lesions is in the pe...
Recommended diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: guidelines from the International Panel on the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis McDonald WI, Compston A, Edan G, et al. Ann Neurol 2001;50:121-127 Spinal cord abnormalities in recently diagnosed MS pat...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be an autoimmune disease; however, the exact cause is not known. Early signs and symptoms of MS are fatigue, bladder and bowel problems, vision problems, and numbness, tingling, or pain in certain areas of the body.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be an autoimmune disease; however, the exact cause is not known. Early signs and symptoms of MS are fatigue, bladder and bowel problems, vision problems, and numbness, tingling, or pain in certain areas of the body.
multiple sclerosis New MRI criteria in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosisNew MRI criteria in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosisdoi:10.1016/s1474-4422(07)70181-3Bianca Weinstock-Guttman aRobert Zivadinov a b
MRI criteriaremitting multiple sclerosisprimary progressive multiple sclerosisThis article presents an overview of current data on primary-progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). In this aspect, the authors consider its characteristics in comparison to other MS forms as well as possible markers of the ...
There are two extremes in multiple sclerosis. The first is a "benign" syndrome in which patients have numerous lesions identified on MRI imaging, but have few -- if any -- symptoms, even decades after their diagnosis. At the opposite end of the spectrum is a condition identified as the Ma...