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& History
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Findings
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and X-Ray
Differential
Diagnosis
The
Disease
Treatment
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Variants
of multiple sclerosis.
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Acute multiple sclerosis (Marburg
syndrome):
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Younger individuals.
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Rapid and fulminant course (months).
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Large and numerous plaques.
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Extensive myelin destruction
with axonal loss.
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Devic disease:
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Bilateral optic involvement.
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Extensive spinal cord involvement.
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20% have rapid course.
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Asians more often.
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Plaques are more destructive
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Gray matter involvement.
What can
be done?
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