imaging (magnetic resonance)

Gray Matter Imaging Reveals MS Changes Missed on Standard MRI

NewsemiaJune 1, 2019

by NewsemiaJune 1, 201901

Structural changes and volume loss seen in gray matter can explain cognitive, clinical symptoms that are elusive on standard MRI in patients with primary progressive...

Neurology

Minor Stroke, TIA Diagnosis More Often Missed in Women

NewsemiaMay 31, 2019

by NewsemiaMay 31, 201901

Despite presenting with similar symptoms, women were less likely to be diagnosed with an ischemic cerebrovascular event, but 90-day recurrent stroke rates were similar for...

Neurology

Novel Program Trains Nurse Practitioners to Manage Pain Patients

NewsemiaMarch 18, 2019

by NewsemiaMarch 18, 201905

In a unique educational program, nurse practitioners learned how to examine patients with shoulder and knee pain and how to determine which patients require specialist...

Neurology

Key Clinical Features of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Identified

NewsemiaDecember 2, 2018

by NewsemiaDecember 2, 201803

The current CDC definition of acute flaccid myelitis may include several other diagnoses and may impede quick identification of this emerging threat to pediatric patients....

Neurology

How Have the 2017 McDonald Criteria Affected MS Diagnoses?

NewsemiaOctober 3, 2018

by NewsemiaOctober 3, 201802

The 2017 revisions to the McDonald criteria: Dr Stephen Krieger discusses new research related to MS diagnosis and lesion location. Medscape Neurology Source link...

Neurology

Double the Risk for Neurotoxicity for Hispanic Kids From ALL Rx

NewsemiaSeptember 13, 2018

by NewsemiaSeptember 13, 201801

Minority children, notably Hispanics, are more susceptible to developing methotrexate-induced neurotoxicity than non-Hispanic children during treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Medscape Medical News Source...

Neurology

Novel Multiple Sclerosis Subtype Identified

NewsemiaSeptember 1, 2018

by NewsemiaSeptember 1, 201807

A novel subtype of multiple sclerosis marked by demyelination of the spinal cord and cerebral cortex but not of cerebral white matter has been identified....

Neurology

Headache MRI: What to Do With Incidental Findings

NewsemiaSeptember 1, 2018

by NewsemiaSeptember 1, 201802

Dr Randolph Evans reviews the prevalence and types of significant incidental findings on brain MRI for headaches. American Headache Society and Medscape Source link...

Neurology

Updated Diagnostic Criteria for MS an 'Enormous Jump' Forward

NewsemiaAugust 31, 2018

by NewsemiaAugust 31, 201801

Researchers followed 229 people with clinically isolated syndrome to compare the 2010 and 2017 McDonald criteria for predicting progression to multiple sclerosis over time. Medscape...

Neurology

Wireless Upgrade to Abbott's DBS System Makes It MRI-Compatible

NewsemiaAugust 6, 2018

by NewsemiaAugust 6, 201804

The FDA has cleared a wireless software upgrade for all currently implanted Infinity DBS systems for Parkinson’s and essential tremor that delivers MRI-conditional labeling. FDA...