Multiple Sclerosis Abnormal Thoracic Spine Mri
They re found in about 80 percent of people newly diagnosed with ms.
Multiple sclerosis abnormal thoracic spine mri. I am afraid you will have to probably wait until you see your doctor again. Multiple sclerosis ms is a relatively common acquired chronic relapsing demyelinating disease involving the central nervous system and is the second most common cause of neurological impairment in young adults after trauma 19 characteristically and by definition multiple sclerosis is disseminated not only in space i e. There does seem to be more issues in your thoracic mri but these would not cause the optic neuritis. Numbers in parentheses are sublistings of abnormal.
Although with the optic neuritis you would expect to see more in the brain mri. Disease related changes in the brain or spinal cord are detected by mri in more. Ms lesions on the thoracic area are less common in ms. Multiple lesions in different regions of the brain but also in time.
Practice essentials magnetic resonance imaging mri was first used to visualize multiple sclerosis ms in the upper cervical spine in the late 1980s. Multiple sclerosis patientswithillness ofdurationgreaterthan 10years theseareasofabnormalt2. A few scattered t1 and t2 hyperintense lesions are present most consistent with typical vertebral hemangiomata. I am sorry that i cant help any more.
Sometimes the number of spinal lesions identified from an mri can provide the doctor. 1 s spinal ms is often associated with. About 5 of people with multiple sclerosis don t have lesions in the brain that show up on the test. Spinal cord lesions are common in ms.
Virtually everyone with multiple sclerosis ms has signs of lesions in the brain as shown by magnetic. The radiologist report states the following. I had an mri 3t of the t spine. Ms lesions on the spinal cord can be seen on an mri scan as shown here.
Magnetic resonance imaging of spinal cord lesions in multiplesclerosis. Normal thoracic vertebral alignment is present without subluxation.