Historically, optic nerve involvement has been excluded from MS diagnostic criteria, but its inclusion in the new iteration ...

The following is a summary of “Inverse relation between serum neurofilament light chain and cognitive function in chronic ...

Hallucinations, cortical visual loss, advanced brain atrophy, and a normal CSF white blood cell count are tied to rapidly progressive dementia.

Background Prior work suggests different interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) that share the radiological usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern have an overall worse prognosis. However, ...

Technological advances offer promise for improving our understanding of disease mechanisms, and some tools will be helpful in diagnosis and ... of classification criteria for myositis and its ...

A panelist discusses how ITP diagnosis remains one of exclusion requiring thorough testing to rule out other causes of thrombocytopenia, followed by patient education about autoimmune diseases and ...

Aims International criteria for the diagnosis of ocular sarcoidosis (OS) was established by the first International Workshop on Ocular Sarcoidosis (IWOS) and validations studies revealed certain ...

The modified New York criteria for ankylosing spondylitis appeared to be the most specific. In this cohort, the contribution of MRI and human leucocyte antigen B27 to purely clinical criteria in ...

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) can be a challenging diagnosis. Although rare, researchers have found that Black Americans — particularly Black women — have shorter survival rates than other races. The ...

Objective To examine the performance of the new 2022 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/EULAR giant cell arteritis (GCA) classification criteria for diagnosis in routine clinical care. Methods ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an uncommon cause of neck pain and radiculopathy that can ...

The diagnosis of Marfan syndrome (MFS) relies on defined clinical criteria (Ghent nosology), outlined by international expert opinion to facilitate accurate recognition of this genetic aneurysm ...