multiple sclerosis is an auto immune disease affecting the brain and spinal cord
Multiple sclerosis (MS) or disseminated sclerosis is characterized by chronic inflammation, demyelination, and scaring of the myelin sheath of the CNS. Myelin damage disrupts communication between your brain and the rest of your body. Ultimately, the nerves themselves may deteriorate, a process that's currently irreversible
The cause of multiple sclerosis is unknown. It is believed to be an autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues.
Early Symptoms of MS
• Blurred or double vision
• Thinking problems
• Clumsiness or a lack of coordination
• Loss of balance
• Numbness
• Tingling
• Weakness in an arm or leg
No two people have exactly the same symptoms of MS.
You may have a single symptom, and then go months or years without any others. A problem can also happen just one time, go away, and never return. For some people, the symptoms become worse within weeks or months.
Common Symptoms of MS
These are the most common changes to the mind and body in someone with MS:
Unusual sensations: People with MS often say they feel a "pins and needles" sensation. They may also have numbness, itching, burning, stabbing, or tearing pains. About half of people with MS have these uncomfortable symptoms. Fortunately, they can be managed or treated.
Bladder problems: About 8 in 10 people have bladder problems, which can be treated. You may need to pee often, urgently, need to go at night, or have trouble emptying your bladder fully. Bowel problems, especially constipation, are also common.
Trouble walking: MS can cause muscle weakness or spasms, which make it harder to walk. Balance problems, numb feet, and fatigue can also make walking hard.
Dizziness: It's common to feel dizzy or lightheaded. You usually won't have vertigo, or the feeling that the room is spinning.
Fatigue: About 8 in 10 people feel very tired. It often comes on in the afternoon and causes weak muscles, slowed thinking, or sleepiness. It's usually not related to the amount of work you do. Some people with MS say they can feel tired even after a good night's sleep.
Muscle spasms: They usually affect the leg muscles. For about 40% of people they are an early symptom of MS. In progressive MS, muscle spasms affect about 6 in 10 people. You might feel mild stiffness or strong, painful muscle spasms.
Sexual trouble: These include vaginal dryness in women and erection problems in men. Both men and women may be less responsive to touch, have a lower sex drive, or have trouble reaching orgasm.
Speech problems: Sometimes MS can cause people to pause a long time in between words and have slurred or nasal speech. Some people also develop swallowing problems in more advanced stages of MS.
MYOPATHIES A SPECIAL AND SEPERATE ENTITY WITH SPECIFIC FEATURES IN EACH DISORDER MAKING US EASY FOR DIAGNOSIS,CONFIRMATION BY MUSCLE BIOPSY.THE SEMINAR WAS PRSENTED ON 06/07/2011...AT 09.00AM
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multiple sclerosis is an auto immune disease affecting the brain and spinal cord
Multiple sclerosis (MS) or disseminated sclerosis is characterized by chronic inflammation, demyelination, and scaring of the myelin sheath of the CNS. Myelin damage disrupts communication between your brain and the rest of your body. Ultimately, the nerves themselves may deteriorate, a process that's currently irreversible
The cause of multiple sclerosis is unknown. It is believed to be an autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues.
Early Symptoms of MS
• Blurred or double vision
• Thinking problems
• Clumsiness or a lack of coordination
• Loss of balance
• Numbness
• Tingling
• Weakness in an arm or leg
No two people have exactly the same symptoms of MS.
You may have a single symptom, and then go months or years without any others. A problem can also happen just one time, go away, and never return. For some people, the symptoms become worse within weeks or months.
Common Symptoms of MS
These are the most common changes to the mind and body in someone with MS:
Unusual sensations: People with MS often say they feel a "pins and needles" sensation. They may also have numbness, itching, burning, stabbing, or tearing pains. About half of people with MS have these uncomfortable symptoms. Fortunately, they can be managed or treated.
Bladder problems: About 8 in 10 people have bladder problems, which can be treated. You may need to pee often, urgently, need to go at night, or have trouble emptying your bladder fully. Bowel problems, especially constipation, are also common.
Trouble walking: MS can cause muscle weakness or spasms, which make it harder to walk. Balance problems, numb feet, and fatigue can also make walking hard.
Dizziness: It's common to feel dizzy or lightheaded. You usually won't have vertigo, or the feeling that the room is spinning.
Fatigue: About 8 in 10 people feel very tired. It often comes on in the afternoon and causes weak muscles, slowed thinking, or sleepiness. It's usually not related to the amount of work you do. Some people with MS say they can feel tired even after a good night's sleep.
Muscle spasms: They usually affect the leg muscles. For about 40% of people they are an early symptom of MS. In progressive MS, muscle spasms affect about 6 in 10 people. You might feel mild stiffness or strong, painful muscle spasms.
Sexual trouble: These include vaginal dryness in women and erection problems in men. Both men and women may be less responsive to touch, have a lower sex drive, or have trouble reaching orgasm.
Speech problems: Sometimes MS can cause people to pause a long time in between words and have slurred or nasal speech. Some people also develop swallowing problems in more advanced stages of MS.
MYOPATHIES A SPECIAL AND SEPERATE ENTITY WITH SPECIFIC FEATURES IN EACH DISORDER MAKING US EASY FOR DIAGNOSIS,CONFIRMATION BY MUSCLE BIOPSY.THE SEMINAR WAS PRSENTED ON 06/07/2011...AT 09.00AM
HAVE A LOOK ..AND COMMENT..WITHOUT BIAS..
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2. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
• MS is a progressive neurodegenerative
disorder characterized histopathologically by
multiple inflammatory demyelinating foci
called "plaques."
3. ETIOLOGY
• Multifactorial disease
• Autoimmune-Mediated Demyelination
• Environmental Factors - EBVexposure, chemicals,
smoking, diet, and geographic variability all
contribute to MS risk
• MS is a partially heritable autoimmune disease
4. LOCATION
• Supratentorial (90%), infratentorial (10%)
(higher in children)
• Deep cerebral/periventricular white matter
• Predilection for callososeptal interface
• Perivenular extension (Dawson fingers)
5.
6. SIZE AND NUMBER
• Multiple > solitary
• Mostly small (5-10 mm)
Giant "tumefactive" plaques can be several cms
○ 30% of "tumefactive" MS lesions solitary
9. CLINICAL ISSUES
• Most common chronic nontraumatic neurologic
disease among young and middle-aged people.
• Risk of MS is increased 15-35 times in first-order
relatives of patients with clinically definite MS
• Overall F:M ratio is 1.77:1.00
10. PRESENTATION
• Intermittent neurologic disturbances followed
by progressive accumulation of disabilities.
• First attack of MS (most commonly optic
neuritis, transverse myelitis, or a brainstem
syndrome) is known as a CLINICALLY ISOLATED
SYNDROME
12. Radiologically Isolated Syndrome
• Mildest of the demyelinating disease spectrum.
• RIS refers to MR findings of spatial dissemination
of T2/FLAIR lesions suggestive of MS in persons
with no history of neurologic symptoms and with
a normal neurologic examination.
13. • Half of the patients with RIS are initially
imaged because of headache, and the white
matter lesions are considered "incidental"
findings.
• When a clinical attack occurs in these patients,
a diagnosis of MS can be made.
• MS should not be diagnosed solely on the
basis of MR findings
14. Clinically Isolated Syndrome
• CIS refers to a first episode of neurologic
symptoms that lasts at least 24 hours and is
caused by inflammation or demyelination in the
CNS.
CIS can be monofocal or multifocal.
• Monofocal CIS - a single neurologic sign or
symptom (e.g., optic neuritis) is caused by a
single lesion.
• Multifocal CIS - more than one sign or symptom
caused by lesions in more than one location.
15.
16. IMAGING FEATURES
Size – Few mm to several cm
Number – Usually multiple but giant tumefactive
plaques are solitary
Tissue loss with generalized brain atrophy
Enlarged ventricles and sulci with white matter
volume loss
Thinned corpus callosum
17. CT FINDINGS
• Early stage – NECT – Normal
• Solitary or multiple ill-defined white matter
hypodensities
• CECT - mild to moderate punctate, patchy, or
ring enhancement.
18. MRI FINDINGS
• MR is the procedure of choice for both initial
evaluation and treatment follow-up.
• Most recent revised McDonald criteria for MS
diagnosis rely on MR to demonstrate
dissemination in both space and time.
19. T1WI
Hypo- or isointense - correlates with axonal
destruction.
Beveled or "lesion-within-a-lesion" appearance -
faint, poorly delineated peripheral rim of mild
hyperintensity (lipid peroxidation and macrophage
infiltration ) surrounds sharply delineated
hypointense black holes.
The corpus callosum becomes progressively thinner
and is best delineated on sagittal T1WI.
23. T1 C+
Active demyelination - transient enhancement
- Punctate, nodular, linear, and rim patterns are
seen
Large tumefactive lesions – horseshoe
enhancement- open nonenhancing segment
facing the cortex
Cortical demyelination - Leptomeningeal
enhancement
Steroid administration significantly reduces
lesion enhancement
24.
25. DWI
• Majority of acute plaques - normal or increased
diffusivity.
• Occasionally acute MS plaques can demonstrate
restriction on DWI - atypical - should not be
considered a reliable biomarker of plaque activity
26.
27. MRS
• MRS may allow early distinction between relapsing
remitting and secondary-progressive MS.
• Secondary progressive MS - decreased NAA consistent
with axonal/neuronal loss or dysfunction.
• Myoinositol levels are elevated in acute lesions and
are also increased in normal-appearing white matter.
• Tumefactive MS - elevated choline, decreased NAA,
and high lactate.
31. Case 2 : 77yrs male with 2 days of progressive confusion
32.
33. MCDONALDS CRITERIA
• Clinical, Radiographic, and Laboratory criteria
used in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
Two major changes in the 2017 revision
• Early diagnosis of MS
CIS
Demonstration of dissemination of space on MRI
Presence of CSF-specific oligoclonal bands
No need for demonstration of dissemination of time
on MRI
• Symptomatic and/or Asymptomatic MRI lesions,
except those in the optic nerve, can be
considered in the determination of dissemination
in space or time
34. Clinical attacks Radiological Other addl details
≥2 clinical attacks with ≥2 lesions with no additional data
needed
≥2 clinical attacks with 1 lesion and a clinical history
suggestive of a previous lesion
with no additional data
needed
≥2 clinical attacks with 1 lesion
no clinical history suggestive of a
previous lesion
with dissemination in space
evident on MRI
1 clinical attack
(i.e. clinically
isolated
syndrome)
with ≥2 lesions
dissemination in time evident
on MRI
demonstration of CSF-
specific oligoclonal bands
1 clinical attack
(i.e. clinically
isolated
syndrome)
with 1 lesion
dissemination in space/ time
evident on MRI
demonstration of CSF-
specific oligoclonal bands
35. Diagnosis of MS requires elimination of more likely
diagnoses and demonstration of dissemination of
lesions in space and time
Dissemination in time
New T2-hyperintense or gadolinium-enhancing
lesion when compared to a previous baseline MRI scan
(irrespective of timing)
Simultaneous presence of a gadolinium-enhancing
lesion and a non-enhancing T2-hyperintense lesion
on any one MRI scan
36. Dissemination in space
≥1 T2-hyperintense lesions (≥3 mm in long axis),
symptomatic and/or asymptomatic, that are characteristic
of MS in two or more of the four following locations 5:
Periventricular (≥1 lesion. Age >50yrs it is advised to
seek a higher number of lesions)
Cortical or juxtacortical (≥1 lesion)
Infratentorial (≥1 lesion)
Spinal cord (≥1 lesion)
38. MS vs ADEM
• ADEM typically following arecent (1-2 weeks
prior) viral infection or vaccination.
• Slight male predominance
• Symptoms are more systemic
• Involvement of the callososeptal interface is
unusual . basal ganglia is often involved .
• MTR and diffusivity may help distinguish
ADEM from multiple sclerosis. In multiple
sclerosis both measurements are significantly
decreased.
39.
40. ADEM – extensive involvement of the cortical
and gray matter - including thalamus.
41. MS vs SUSAC SYNDROME
• SICRET syndrome - small infarctions of
cochlear , retinal and encephalic tissue
Similarities
• Multifocal T2/FLAIR white
matter hyperintensities
• Commonly affect young adult
women
Differences
Involves middle of the corpus
callosum, not the callososeptal
interface.
42.
43.
44. • Vasculitis - Preferentially involves the basal
ganglia and spares the callososeptal interface.
• Lyme disease - Cranial nerve enhancement is
more common in LD than in MS.
45. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS VARIANTS
Major MS variants are
(1) Marburg disease (MD)
(2) Schilder disease (SD)
(3) Balo concentric sclerosis (BCS).
46. MARBURG DISEASE
• Rare acute fulminate MS variant
○ Rapid neurologic deterioration
○ Monophasic, relentless progression
○ Death usually within 1 year
• Usually young adults
Pathology and Imaging
• Multifocal > solitary disease
○ Characterized by coalescent white matter plaques
○ Brain (including posterior fossa), spinal cord
lesions . Lesions characterized by massive
inflammation and necrosis.
47. MARBURG DISEASE
Imaging shows diffusely disseminated disease
o Large cavitating lesions
○ Incomplete enhancing rim
○ Multiple other patchy enhancing foci
48. 26/M with short H/O visual disturbance and upper extremity weakness
49.
50. SCHILDER DISEASE
• Myelinoclastic diffuse sclerosis
○ Rare acute/subacute demyelinating disorder
○ Lesions may resolve; 15% progress to MS
• Young adults , female preponderance
• Clinical features atypical for MS, ADEM
○ CSF normal
○ No history of fever, flu, vaccination
• Solitary > multifocal lesions
• Lesions look like tumefactive MS
• Differential diagnosis: Neoplasm and Abscess
51. BALO CONCENTRIC SCLEROSIS
• Concentric rings of demyelination/myelin
preservation
○ Resemble tree trunk or onion bulb
○ Solitary > multifocal
• Acute onset and rapid clinical deterioration
• "Whirlpool" hyperintense concentric rings on
T2WI
○ Minimal mass effect, edema
• Actively demyelinating layers enhance