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Health Encyclopedia: Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis
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Multiple sclerosis is characterized by recurring neurologic episodes that are due to multiple lesions (injured areas) in different locations in the central nervous system. The diagnostic challenges in multiple sclerosis are two-fold:
- Making an initial diagnosis as early as possible in order to slow down the disease progression. Most patients first seek medical help after an initial inflammatory event (known as a clinically isolated syndrome) originating from demyelination in the eye, the...
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