Gray matter atrophy and disability progression in patients with early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis A 5-year longitudinal study

Abstract

We assessed the relationship between gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) atrophy and clinical status in early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients over 5 years.

Keywords

• Multiple sclerosis
• Disability
• Relapse rate
• Brain atrophy
• Gray matter
• White matter
• MRI
• clinically isolated syndromes
• corticosteroid combination therapy
• status scale edss
• brain atrophy
• white-matter
• follow-up
• ventricular enlargement
• volume changes
• double-blind
• lesion load