Spinal cord and retinal measures independently relate to MS

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Spinal cord and retinal measures independently relate to MS disability

New research found statistically significant correlations between MRI measures of the spinal cord, optical coherence tomography measures of the retina, and clinical disability.

Two common categories of multiple sclerosis symptoms, visual and sensorimotor, are associated with lesions in the spinal cord (SC) and optic nerve. The symptoms also co-occur frequently in specific classes of demyelinating diseases such as neuromyelitis optica. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University recently tested for a relationship between the two central nervous system structures (Oh et al., 2015)....... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/msetiology