pop quiz re actual 2018 study: Pure spinal MS

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pop quiz re actual 2018 study: Pure spinal MS

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pop quiz: name one key differential dx for 'pure spinal multiple sclerosis'

Pure spinal multiple sclerosis: A possible novel entity within the multiple sclerosis disease spectrum (2018)
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10. ... 8518775912
Abstract
We identified five female patients retrospectively with relapsing short-segment partial myelitis whose clinical and paraclinical features were suggestive of cord involvement of multiple sclerosis (MS)-type albeit not rigidly fulfilling the 2017 McDonald criteria. Notably, these patients had not developed any typical MS-like brain lesions despite repeated neuroimaging assessments over years. Comprehensive work-up for differential diagnoses of MS and other causes of transverse myelitis particularly neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders had been consistently negative on longitudinal follow-up. Thus, we postulate a possible entity of pure spinal MS which may represent a novel forme fruste within the MS disease spectrum.
lots of different tests shown in the various tables and figures of the full text.

one guess which test is missing from the array.
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Re: pop quiz re actual 2018 study: Pure spinal MS

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This looks quite similar to the new described "myelocortical MS" (MCMS):

"However, in the new findings, a research team led by Bruce Trapp, Ph.D., identified for the first time a subtype of the disease that features neuronal loss but no demyelination of the brain’s white matter"

https://reliawire.com/myelocortical-ms/
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Re: pop quiz re actual 2018 study: Pure spinal MS

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interesting.

re the pop quiz, the missing test is serum cobalamin

b12: there to be ruled out:

Differential diagnosis of suspected multiple sclerosis: a consensus approach
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850590/
Hematological manifestations - Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; vitamin B12 deficiency; Wilson's disease (hemolytic anemia); copper deficiency

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VITAMIN, MINERAL & NUTRITION RELATED SYNDROMES
https://neuromuscular.wustl.edu/nother/vitamin.htm#B12

Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) deficiency
-Pathology
--Spinal cord

----Multifocal axonal loss & demyelination
----Localization
------Cervical & thoracic

------Posterior column > Anterolateral & Anterior
---------Peripheral nerve: Axonal loss; Occasional ± demyelination

Vitamin B12 deficiency. Prevalence among South Asians at a Toronto clinic (2004)
http://www.cfp.ca/content/50/5/743.short
RESULTS B12 results were documented in 49% of charts; 46% of results showed deficiency. Patients older than 65 and vegetarians were more likely to be B12 deficient. Low serum B12 levels were positively correlated with low hemoglobin and ferritin levels and poorly correlated with low MCV levels.
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Maybe all those tests are now obsolete. It seems that now there is a blood test for MS available in the US.

https://www.iquitylabs.com/patients/multiple-sclerosis/
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yes, let's completely ignore the nutritional component :'(
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