Held Heather,  Vaidyanathan Vaishnavi,  Pfeifer Cory,  Bassal Frederick

Final Pr. ID: Poster #: SCI-029

Clinical diagnosis of pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS) is challenging, and MRI diagnostic criteria has imperfect sensitivity and specificity. The central vein sign (CVS) is a promising marker for POMS, however, most literature evaluating the central vein sign in POMS utilizes only the axial fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and susceptibility weigted imaging (SWI) sequences. Many institutions do not perform the SWI routinely or only recently replaced gradient recalled echo (GRE) with SWI in standard protocols. We investigate whether it is possible to detect the CVS with the GRE sequence. Read More

Authors:  Held Heather , Vaidyanathan Vaishnavi , Pfeifer Cory , Bassal Frederick

Keywords:  Central Vein Sign, Multiple Sclerosis, POMS

Fetzer Daniel,  Aaen Gregory,  Udochukwu Oyoyo,  Achiriloaie Adina

Final Pr. ID: Paper #: 164

Pediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) is difficult to diagnose at presentation, and the clinical features often overlap those of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), neuromyelitis optica or clinically isolated syndrome. Established criteria for diagnosing MS are less reliable in pre-pubescent children. We seek to qualitatively and quantitatively define the MRI features of pediatric MS compared to ADEM at initial presentation. Read More

Authors:  Fetzer Daniel , Aaen Gregory , Udochukwu Oyoyo , Achiriloaie Adina

Keywords:  Multiple sclerosis, ADEM, white matter disease