Significant advances have been made in recent years in terms of disease-modifying treatment of multiple sclerosis. A large number of new treatments are now available. These can prevent clinical relapses, new lesions on imaging, and evidence suggests, significant delay time to progressive disease.¹

However,...

Case study 1

A 27-year-old woman presents with a week history of right-sided paraesthesia, weakness of left arm abduction and mild right eye blurred vision

She describes an electric-shock sensation travelling through her body on neck flexion. An MRI of the brain is normal, but an MRI of the cervical...

Case study 1

A 26-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with a one-week history of right facial numbness and right upper limb ataxia

She reports that she had left monocular visual loss six months ago but did not seek medical attention because the symptoms resolved after two weeks. There is...

Case study 1

A 35-year-old female is referred by her GP with a one week history of right monocular visual loss

On examination the patient has right sided 6/36 visual acuity, a right relative afferent pupillary defect and a normal fundus examination. ESR and MRI brain are normal.

Question 1: What is...

Case study 1

A 27-year-old woman had a three-year history of unilateral, throbbing headache with associated nausea and vomiting

A routine non-contrast MRI brain was performed on this woman and revealed findings suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Question 1: What are the characteristic MRI...