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Title : Ocular torsions and the subjective visual vertical with brainstem and cerebellar lesions in multiple sclerosis
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Abstract
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system leading to disability, especially in young patients. Acute or chronic lesions of MS within the brainstem and the cerebellum frequently results in ocular motor disorders and deviation of subjective visual vertical (SVV). Objectives: the aim of this study to evaluate ocular motor disorders in MS patients and also to investigate to what extent they may have problems with the estimation of verticality. Also to correlate between those findings and the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). Methods: The current study included 95 patients divided into two groups. group I comprised 65 patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis all with brainstem and\or cerebellar affection. group II comprised 30 healthy age and sex-matched individuals. group I was subjected to complete bedside evaluation, oculomotor testing and subjective visual vertical testing while in group II oculomotor testing and subjective visual vertical were evaluated. Results: Ocular motor disorders are a common finding in our study also comparison between study and control group regarding oculomotor testing and subjective visual vertical was highly significantly different and this was the most important finding in our study