Clinical Manifestations
Inflammation of the optic nerve.
What is optic neuritis?
The bladder contracts, but the sphincter fails to relax, causing retention and greatly increasing the risk of UTIs.
What is Detrusor-Sphincter Dyssynergia?
A noninvasive test that involves the use of electrodes and a stimulus to record the brain's electrical activity and responses.
What is an evoked potential test?
For severe relapses unresponsive to steroids, this procedure removes plasma to clear harmful immune factors from the blood.
What is Plasma Exchange (or Plasmapheresis)?
The condition of nystagmus, intention tremor, and scanning speech.
What is Charcot's neurologic triad?
Damage to the CNS leading to “invisible symptoms”.
What are cognitive deficits?
These two types of lymphocytes, activated in the periphery, cross the Blood-Brain Barrier to drive the autoimmune attack.
What are T-cells and B-cells?
A noninvasive imaging method that uses reflected light to create a picture of the back of the eye.
What is optical coherence tomography?
Baclofen and Tizanidine are commonly prescribed muscle relaxants used to manage this painful stiffness or involuntary tightening of muscles.
What is Spasticity?
Symptoms come from a single attack that is followed by a near-complete recovery.
What is clinically isolated syndrome?
Numbness, tingling, or a sensation of “pins and needles” in the extremities
What is sensory loss?
This fatty, protective sheath around CNS axons is attacked by the immune system, leading to signal disruption.
What is Myelin?
A medical procedure where a thin needle is inserted between the bones of the spine to remove a small sample of cerebrospinal fluid.
What is a lumbar puncture?
The main purpose of these long-term therapies is to reduce relapses, prevent new lesions, and slow the progression of disability.
What are Disease-Modifying Therapies?
People with this disorder find that exposure to heat or fever can cause old symptoms to temporarily worsen.
What is heat intolerance?
Muscle Stiffness, spasms, and tremors can lead to difficulty while moving.
What are spasticity and tremors?
The resulting areas of scar tissue and inflammation in the brain or spinal cord are medically known by this term.
What are lesions?
A scan that creates clear images of the structures inside your body using a large magnet, radio waves, and a computer.
What is an MRI?
High-dose IV or oral forms of this anti-inflammatory drug class.
What are Corticosteroids?
This disease is diagnosed two to three times more often in this gender.
What is Female?
A feeling of constant exhaustion that cannot be relieved.
What is fatigue?
The inflammation of this specific cranial nerve often causes painful, temporary vision loss in one eye.
What is the optic nerve?
A doctor who specializes in diseases that affect the nervous system.
What is a neurologist?
Drugs like Dimethyl Fumarate and Fingolimod offer patients this convenient, non-injectable route of administration for their Disease Modifying Therapies (DMT).
What is Oral Administration?
A lack of exposure to sunlight, leading to low levels of this vitamin, is strongly associated with an increased risk of developing this disease.
What is Vitamin D?