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. 1988 Dec;51(12):1569–1571. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.51.12.1569

The early risk of multiple sclerosis after optic neuritis.

D H Miller 1, I E Ormerod 1, W I McDonald 1, D G MacManus 1, B E Kendall 1, D P Kingsley 1, I F Moseley 1
PMCID: PMC1032775  PMID: 3221224

Abstract

Serial brain MRI was performed in 53 patients with clinically isolated optic neuritis. Using clinical and imaging evidence for relapse, multiple sclerosis developed within a mean of 12 months in 19 of 34 cases (56%) with brain lesions at presentation, and in only 3 of 19 cases (16%) without (Relative Risk = 6.8, p less than 0.005).

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