Alex Rovira

TL;DR: The demographic and topographic characteristics are low-impact prognostic factors, the presence of oligoclonal bands is a medium- impact prognostic factor, and the number of lesions on brain magnetic resonance is a high-impact prediction factor.

TL;DR: Recommendations are intended to help radiologists and neurologists standardize and optimize the use of MRI in clinical practice for the diagnosis of MS.

TL;DR: Investigation of whether oligoclonal bands add information to MRI in predicting both a second attack and development of disability in patients with clinically isolated syndromes found that the presence of OB doubles the risk for having a secondattack, independently of MRI, but does not seem to influence the development of disabilities.

TL;DR: In 2006, new criteria were proposed in which DIS requires at least one T2 lesion in at least two of four locations (juxtacortical, periventricular, infratentorial, and spinal-cord) and DIT requires a new lesion on a follow-up scan as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Perfusion MRI is a promising tool in assessing stroke, brain tumors, and neurodegenerative diseases and most of the impediments that have limited the use of per-fusionMRI can be overcome to allow integration of these methods into modern neuroimaging protocols.