Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis Criteria. These new criteria intended to replace the poser criteria and the older schumacher. Although the diagnosis can be made on clinical grounds alone magnetic resonance imaging mri of the central nervous system cns can support supplement.
Guidelines for research protocols ann neurol. Recommended diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis. Instead a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis often relies on ruling out other conditions that might produce similar signs and symptoms known as a differential diagnosis.
Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis ms include clinical and paraclinical laboratory assessments 1 2 emphasizing the need to demonstrate dissemination of lesions in space dis and time dit and to exclude alternative diagnoses.
Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis ms include clinical and paraclinical laboratory assessments 1 2 emphasizing the need to demonstrate dissemination of lesions in space dis and time dit and to exclude alternative diagnoses. 2017 revisions of mcdonald criteria shorten the time to diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in clinically isolated syndromes. Recommended diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis. 2017 mcdonald ms diagnostic criteria thompson et al 2017 click to enlarge.