Cataracts, a common eye condition characterized by clouding of the lens, often lead to blurred vision and, if left untreated, ...

A teenage girl presented to the hospital emergency department with a three-week history of intermittent frontal headache, which was worse in the morning and associated with nausea, vomiting, lethargy, ...

She states symptoms as including: Pedra Lhermitte's Sign (electric shock sensation), facial pain, MS hug, heat intolerance, body jerks, cognitive fog, itching (pruritus), hypersensitivity to light, ...

In MS, an uncontrolled inflammatory response causes damage to the myelin sheath ... worked in 24 patients with acute demyelinating optic neuritis, an inflammation of the nerves that connect ...

Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody ... In adults, the condition is typically associated with optic neuritis or transverse myelitis. Children who develop MOGAD often have a one-time ...

The drug, LL-341070, enhances the brain's ability to repair damaged myelin— the protective sheath around nerve fibers. Damage to myelin is a hallmark of diseases like MS, as well as a natural ...

Parts of these neurons are protected by an insulating layer called a myelin sheath ... travel down your optic nerves. If you have MS, your immune system attacks the myelin sheath that insulates ...

The sequential onset of quadriparesis and optic neuritis suggests a continuous pathogenesis involving shared autoimmune mechanisms targeting central and peripheral myelin. The absence of other CNS ...

Optic nerve sheath diameter not linked with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, reveals research published in the BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Preeclampsia is implicated in 14% of maternal deaths ...

Fiber optic drones capable of penetrating 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) into enemy lines and striking targets with high-resolution imagery have emerged as key tools in the Russia-Ukraine war.

About Acute Optic Neuritis Acute optic neuritis is a rare ... remyelination often occurs but it is incomplete. Without the myelin sheath protecting the axon, neurons located in demyelinated ...