Gray Matter Imaging Reveals MS Changes Missed on Standard MRI
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...
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Minor Stroke, TIA Diagnosis More Often Missed in Women
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...
Novel Program Trains Nurse Practitioners to Manage Pain Patients
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...
Key Clinical Features of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Identified
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....
How Have the 2017 McDonald Criteria Affected MS Diagnoses?
The 2017 revisions to the McDonald criteria: Dr Stephen Krieger discusses new research related to MS diagnosis and lesion location. Medscape Neurology Source link...
Double the Risk for Neurotoxicity for Hispanic Kids From ALL Rx
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...
Novel Multiple Sclerosis Subtype Identified
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....
Headache MRI: What to Do With Incidental Findings
Dr Randolph Evans reviews the prevalence and types of significant incidental findings on brain MRI for headaches. American Headache Society and Medscape Source link...
Updated Diagnostic Criteria for MS an 'Enormous Jump' Forward
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...
Wireless Upgrade to Abbott's DBS System Makes It MRI-Compatible
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...