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The McDonald criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis were revised first in 2005 to clarify exactly what is meant by an "attack", "dissemination" and a "positive MRI", etc. [1] Later they were revised again in 2017. [6] McDonald criteria are the standard clinical case definition for MS and the 2010 version is regarded as the gold ...
Among them, Poser criteria utilized several laboratory and paraclinical studies to enhance the diagnostic accuracy. McDonald criteria, which are the ones used today, successfully introduced MRI findings as surrogates for the criterion of dissemination in time and space when clinical data are lacking, thus allowing earlier diagnosis of MS. [32]
The McDonald criteria states that patients with multiple sclerosis should have lesions which are disseminated in time (DIT) and disseminated in space (DIS), i.e. lesions which have appeared in different areas in the brain and at different times. [89] Below is an abbreviated outline of the 2017 McDonald Criteria for diagnosis of MS.
A clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) is a clinical situation of an individual's first neurological episode, caused by inflammation or demyelination of nerve tissue. An episode may be monofocal, in which symptoms present at a single site in the central nervous system, or multifocal, in which multiple sites exhibit symptoms.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials and increased to $25 million the reward it is offering for the arrest of President ...
Poser criteria are diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis (MS). They replaced the older Schumacher criteria , [ 1 ] and are now considered obsolete as McDonald criteria have superseded them. Nevertheless, some of the concepts introduced have remained in MS research, like CDMS (clinical definite MS), and newer criteria are often calibrated ...
DETROIT — As frigid temperatures engulf large swaths of the nation, auto experts are debunking a longtime myth about driving in winter.. AAA, a federation of motor clubs, recommends drivers ...
May 17, 2017 at 2:20 PM. McDonald's just pulled an ad in the UK about a widow and her son after it received backlash from viewers who said it was insensitive to grieving kids.