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Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria

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These revisions simplify the McDonald Criteria, preserve their diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, address their applicability across populations, and may allow earlier diagnosis and more uniform and widespread use.
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New evidence and consensus has led to further revision of the McDonald Criteria for diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The use of imaging for demonstration of dissemination of central nervous system lesions in space and time has been simplified, and in some circumstances dissemination in space and time can be established by a single scan. These revisions simplify the Criteria, preserve their diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, address their applicability across populations, and may allow earlier diagnosis and more uniform and widespread use.

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Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria

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A serum autoantibody marker of neuromyelitis optica : distinction from multiple sclerosis

TL;DR: NMO-IgG is a specific marker autoantibody of neuromyelitis optica and binds at or near the blood-brain barrier that distinguishes neuromyleitis opticas from multiple sclerosis.
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Revised diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica

TL;DR: Revised diagnostic criteria for definite neuromyelitis optica (NMO) that require optic neuritis, myelitis, and at least two of three supportive criteria: MRI evidence of a contiguous spinal cord lesion 3 or more segments in length, onset brain MRI nondiagnostic for multiple sclerosis, or NMO-IgG seropositivity.
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