How to diagnose multiple system atrophy

✍ Scribed by Niall P. Quinn

• Book ID: 102505986
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-3185
• DOI: 10.1002/mds.20534

✦ Synopsis

The diagnosis of multiple system atrophy (MSA) in life remains entirely clinical. Consensus diagnostic criteria have been developed, but their use does not particularly render a diagnosis of MSA more accurate than are clinicians' diagnoses. Some patients may not fulfill the stipulated core diagnostic criteria, yet display many so-called red flags pointing toward MSA. The additional usefulness of these red flags and of a variety of investigations currently is being investigated, with a view to some of them being incorporated in future sets of diagnostic criteria.