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MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS and ITS PRODROMEOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative condition that lead to chronic neurological disability in adults. It is characterized by multiple remissions and relapses that eventually lead to the neurological disability.
Studies recently have been proposing the presence of the so-called prodromal period for multiple sclerosis with nonspecific symptoms that could proceed the first demyelinating event or symptoms onset by many years.
Multiple studies have been studying various symptoms as prodromal symptoms for multiple sclerosis. where in this study we aimed to share the same pathway and tried to assess multiple non motoric symptoms representing fatigue, depressive and anxiety symptoms for their potential to be considered as prodromal factors for multiple sclerosis.
With the recent focus of the studies to gain information about the prodromal period from the health administrates without asking or examining the patients especially with the cognitive decline that usually accompany the MS patients, which caused misleading of the research as it concentrated on the complain of the patients in the previous years before diagnosis and could easily miss the mild cases of symptoms.
In this study we assessed the prodromal period through assessing only patients recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and was done through specific scales in order not to miss mild cases or vague complains.