Volume 4, Issue 8

Is that MS Diagnosis Accurate?

In this issue:

Is it true that a significant number of patients being treated for MS may not actually have the disease? What are the red flags — warnings that something about the patient’s condition does not meet the accepted MS diagnostic criteria — that need to be investigated?   

Join us in this eMultipleSclerosis Review podcast, as Neuroimmunologist Dr. Gabrielle Macaron from Saint Joseph University’s Hotel Dieu de France Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, and the Cleveland Clinic’s Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis, explains strategies to reduce misdiagnosis of MS. 

Learning objectives:

  • Identify the clinical and radiological red flags that warrant evaluation of an alternate diagnosis to MS. 
  • Discuss common errors in the interpretation and application of the MS diagnostic criteria. 

Author:

Gabrielle Macaron, MD
Gabrielle Macaron, MD

Neuroimmunologist, Saint Joseph University
Hotel Dieu de France Hospital
Beirut, Lebanon

Adjunct staff, Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Program Directors:

Pavan Bhargava, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Lisa Fox, PA-C, MPAS

Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

Michael Kornberg, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Length of activity:

0.5 hour Physicians
0.5 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: June 7, 2022
Expiration date: June 6, 2024