Biomarkers predict second MS attack

[MSUK]

In patients who experienced a first attack of multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms, risk of a second attack was associated with a variety of baseline factors, researchers said here.

Measurements of brain lesions with MRI, oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and visual and sensorimotor evoked potentials were, collectively, indicators for patients at relatively high risk of a second attack within 12 months, reported Vittorio Martinelli, MD, of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.

And, in a separate pan-European study, levels of the chitinase 3-like 1 (CHI3L1) CSF protein were a moderately strong predictor of second attacks in a similar patient population, said Ester Cantó, a PhD student a Vall d'Hebron University in Barcelona.........Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/biomarkersandmicroRNA