Eye Exam May Spot Multiple Sclerosis

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) -- measures thinning of the retina in people with Multiple Sclerosis, said researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

This technique has the potential to provide a powerful and reliable assessment strategy to measure structural changes in the central nervous system," study co-senior author Dr. Elliot Frohman, professor of neurology and ophthalmology and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Center at UT Southwestern, said in a medical center news release.

The study appears in the June issue of the journal Annals of Neurology. The research was a joint project with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham

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