Predictive role of evoked potential examinations in patients with clinically isolated optic neuritis in light of the revised McDonald criteria

Multiple Sclerosis : Clinical and Laboratory Research
Magdolna SimóZsuzsanna Arányi

Abstract

To analyse the sensitivity and role of somatosensory and motor evoked potentials (EP) in patients with a first episode of clinically isolated optic neuritis (ON) in predicting the development and course of multiple sclerosis (MS), 27 patients with ON underwent EP and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations at presentation. Follow-up MRI scans were also performed (mean: 20, range: 4-48 months). It was found that 2/27 patients did not fulfill the MRI (McDonald) and clinical criteria of MS upon follow-up and also had normal EP results. Abnormal EP results were found in 6/27 patients and all of them had follow-up MRI results fulfilling the revised McDonald criteria of MS; 4/6 patients in this group were also diagnosed as clinically definitive MS. The majority, 19/27 patients had normal EP results, but went on to develop MS based on follow-up MRI results and McDonald criteria. Of these patients, however, only 3/19 converted to clinically definitive MS as well. The baseline MRI was abnormal in similar proportions (4/6 and 12/19) in these last two groups of patients. Thus, abnormal EP examinations at the first episode of ON can be considered as a predictive factor only for the earlier clinical conversion to MS - in this respect,...Continue Reading

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