Multiple sclerosis with very late onset.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 1407571.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can present clinically after age 59, but only rarely. In a large MS population (N = 2,019), 0.6% of patients had their first symptom at age 60 or older. Of this group, six had clinically definite MS, two had laboratory-supported definite MS, and four had clinically probable MS. The onset at this age was characteristically a slow deterioration of motor function. Most (10 of 12) of these very late-onset patients had a progressive course of disease from onset.
Medical subject headings
- Multiple Sclerosis