Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: progress and challenges

WJ Brownlee, TA Hardy, F Fazekas, DH Miller - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is based on neurological symptoms and signs, alongside
evidence of dissemination of CNS lesions in space and time. MRI is often sufficient to …

Clinical course of multiple sclerosis

S Klineova, FD Lublin - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The 1996 originally established multiple sclerosis (MS) subtypes, based solely on clinical
impression and consensus, were revised in 2013 to review potential imaging and biological …

MRI criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: MAGNIMS consensus guidelines

M Filippi, MA Rocca, O Ciccarelli, N De Stefano… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
In patients presenting with a clinically isolated syndrome, MRI can support and substitute
clinical information in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by showing disease dissemination …

Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria

AJ Thompson, BL Banwell, F Barkhof… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
The 2010 McDonald criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis are widely used in
research and clinical practice. Scientific advances in the past 7 years suggest that they might …

Defining the clinical course of multiple sclerosis: the 2013 revisions

FD Lublin, SC Reingold, JA Cohen, GR Cutter… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Accurate clinical course descriptions (phenotypes) of multiple sclerosis (MS) are important
for communication, prognostication, design and recruitment of clinical trials, and treatment …

Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Consensus Group (MSTCG): position statement on disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (white paper)

H Wiendl, R Gold, T Berger, T Derfuss… - Therapeutic …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis is a complex, autoimmune-mediated disease of the central nervous
system characterized by inflammatory demyelination and axonal/neuronal damage. The …

Dimethyl fumarate delays multiple sclerosis in radiologically isolated syndrome

DT Okuda, O Kantarci, C Lebrun‐Frénay… - Annals of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS) represents the earliest detectable pre‐
clinical phase of multiple sclerosis (MS). This study evaluated the impact of therapeutic …

The neuroanatomical–functional paradox in spinal cord injury

K Fouad, PG Popovich, MA Kopp… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although lesion size is widely considered to be the most reliable predictor of outcome after
CNS injury, lesions of comparable size can produce vastly different magnitudes of functional …

The multiple sclerosis prodrome

N Makhani, H Tremlett - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2021 - nature.com
A prodrome is an early set of signs, symptoms or other findings that occur before the onset of
typical symptoms of a disease. Prodromal phases are well recognized in several …

[HTML][HTML] Brain health: time matters in multiple sclerosis

G Giovannoni, H Butzkueven, S Dhib-Jalbut… - Multiple sclerosis and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Introduction We present international consensus recommendations for improving diagnosis,
management and treatment access in multiple sclerosis (MS). Our vision is that these will be …