To explore the role of brain and spinal cord MRI features in differentiating patients with suspected central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory diseases.Prospective data from 125 patients undergoing ...

Broad rim lesions, which have wider rims of immune cells, are associated with faster disease progression in MS, per a study.

Currently, patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and brain lesions on MRI suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS), are offered a confirmatory MRI scan after 6 months. Researchers in Italy ...

Certain spinal cord lesions in people with MS show damage to nerve fibers despite having preserved myelin content, a possible ...

More information: Jing-Ping Lin et al, 4D marmoset brain map reveals MRI and molecular signatures for onset of multiple ...

Symptoms of a CIS episode could include: An MRI can sometimes be ... affect many people living with MS.Fatigue is often related to the number of lesions in the brain and to inflammation.

Results show that the wider the inflammatory rim around a brain lesion is, the more aggressively the disease advances. "When microglial cells form a thick rim around MS lesions, their harmful ...

New evidence added to the literature that paramagnetic rim lesions (PRLs) may be a biomarker of disability accumulation in ...