Demyelinating disease

Question 1

Epidemiologically, where and who does MS strike?

Answer 1

more common in northern latitudes, preference for white women

Question 2

What are some of the eye symptoms of MS?

Answer 2

INO, optic neuritis (pain when moving eye around),

Question 3

What is Uhthoff’s phenomenon?

Answer 3

worsening of MS symptoms in heat

Question 4

What are the four major types of MS?

Answer 4

benign, relapsing remitting, secondary progressive, primray progressive

Question 5

Describe the prognosis of MS

Answer 5

1/3 have minimal disability, 1/3 can’t work, 1/3 are wheelchair bound

Question 6

What are key differences between MS and ADEM?

Answer 6

ADEM involves patchy bilateral lesions with predilection for posterior cerebral hemisphere white matter = often seem with cognitive bnormalities. ADEM patients recover usually

Question 7

What is the difference between MS and NMO?

Answer 7

NMO extends over several segments of cord. diagnosed with antibodies against aquaporin-4 channel

Question 8

What is PRES?

Answer 8

posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome

- condition associated with hypertension and eclampsia characteristized by acute confusional state, cortical visual loss