METHOD FOR PREDICTING DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS DEVELOPMENT COURSE AND OUTCOME IN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves carrying out magnetic resonance tomography examination. Focal neurological brain disorders symptoms with growth to 10 days, process stabilization to 14 days and discovering isolated lesions in brain and spinal cord sized to 1.0 cm and having regular round and ovoid shapes with uniform, moderate intensity magnetic resonance signal on magnetic resonance tomograms being observed on the background of general infectious and moderately expressed neurological disorders, acute development course with complete recovery and no neurological deficiency is to be predicted. Neurological symptoms being observed on the background of lacking general infectious and general cerebral disorders with focal lesions increasing during 3 weeks with alternating short stabilization period and rapid arrival of new neurological disorders with pathological magnetic resonance signal foci being 1.5 to 6 cm large and having irregular heap-shaped forms fusing to each other with signals not uniform in intensity on magnetic resonance tomograms, subacute development course with moderate residual neurological deficiency is to be predicted in all patients. Slow (from 1 to 6 month long) neurological symptoms development of the disease being detected with torpid growth period and transition to relative stabilization period characterized with neurological disorders progress becoming slow, with diffuse zones of pathologically changed magnetic resonance signal from brain substance being observed on magnetic resonance tomogram, chronic development course accompanied with progradient disease pattern and development of hard multiple-syndrome neurological deficiency and resistant epilepsy in outcome is to be predicted.

EFFECT: high accuracy of prognosis.