Date of Presentation
5-6-2021 12:00 AM
College
School of Osteopathic Medicine
Poster Abstract
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disease consisting of inflammation, demyelination and loss of axon integrity in the central nervous system. Like many autoimmune diseases, its severity, initial presentation and symptomatology vary. MS is typically onset in young adults between twenty to forty years old, and has been found two-three times more likely in women than in men. As a chronic illness, like many others, it can present in the emergency department as an undifferentiated neurologic complaint. This is a case report of new onset multiple sclerosis in the emergency department, outlining the importance of a broad set of differential diagnoses and benefit of MRI availability for evaluation of entirety of spinal cord in cases such as these.
Keywords
Multiple Sclerosis, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, MRI, diagnosis
Disciplines
Diagnosis | Investigative Techniques | Medicine and Health Sciences | Nervous System Diseases | Neurology
Document Type
Poster
Included in
Diagnosis Commons, Investigative Techniques Commons, Nervous System Diseases Commons, Neurology Commons
Initial Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis in the Emergency Department
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disease consisting of inflammation, demyelination and loss of axon integrity in the central nervous system. Like many autoimmune diseases, its severity, initial presentation and symptomatology vary. MS is typically onset in young adults between twenty to forty years old, and has been found two-three times more likely in women than in men. As a chronic illness, like many others, it can present in the emergency department as an undifferentiated neurologic complaint. This is a case report of new onset multiple sclerosis in the emergency department, outlining the importance of a broad set of differential diagnoses and benefit of MRI availability for evaluation of entirety of spinal cord in cases such as these.