6 Things to Know About MS Brain Lesions
What causes scarring in multiple sclerosis? Why is treatment so important, and do lesions ever heal?
April 22, 2021
When you have the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis (MS), lesions on your brain are part of the package in fact, the word sclerosis means scarring, and scarring is just another way of describing lesions.
“You can’t diagnose MS without having brain lesions in at least two areas of the [central] nervous system, one of which has to be in the brain,” confirms Paven Bhargava, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.
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