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Recommendations of the Polish Medical Society of Radiology and the Polish Society of Neurology for a protocol concerning routinely used magnetic resonance imaging in patients with multiple sclerosis

Marek Sąsiadek
1
,
Marcin Hartel
2
,
Małgorzata Siger
3
,
Katarzyna Katulska
4
,
Agata Majos
5
,
Ewa Kluczewska
6
,
Halina Bartosik-Psujek
7
,
Alina Kułakowska
8
,
Agnieszka Słowik
9
,
Barbara Steinborn
10
,
Monika Adamczyk-Sowa
11
,
Alicja Kalinowska
12
,
Ewa Krzystanek
13
,
Robert Bonek
14
,
Zbigniew Serafin
15
,
Jarosław Sławek
16
,
Przemysław Nowacki
17
,
Adam Stępień
18
,
Sergiusz Jóźwiak
19
,
Konrad Rejdak
20
,
Krzysztof Selmaj
21
,
Jerzy Walecki
22

1.
Department of General and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
2.
Medical Diagnostic Centre Voxel, Katowice, Poland
3.
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
4.
Department of Neuroradiology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
5.
Department of Radiological and Isotopic Diagnosis and Therapy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
6.
Department and Institute of Medical Radiology and Radiodiagnostics in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
7.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
8.
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
9.
Department of Neurology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, University Hospital in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
10.
Department of Developmental Neurology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
11.
Department of Neurology in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland
12.
Department of Neurology, Division of Neurochemistry and Neuropathology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
13.
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
14.
Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroimmunology, Regional Specialist Hospital, Grudziądz, Poland
15.
Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum, Bydgoszcz, Poland
16.
Department of Neurology, St. Adalbert Hospital, “Copernicus” Ltd., Gdańsk, Poland
17.
Department of Neurology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
18.
Department of Neurology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
19.
Department of Paediatric Neurology, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
20.
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
21.
Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
22.
Department of Radiology, Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
Pol J Radiol 2020; 85: e272-e276
Online publish date: 2020/05/26
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used method for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) that is essential for the detection and follow-up of the disease.

The Polish Medical Society of Radiology (PLTR) and the Polish Society of Neurology (PTN) present the second version of their recommendations for investigations routinely conducted in MRI departments in patients with multiple sclerosis. This version includes new data and practical comments for electroradiology technologists and radiologists. The recommended protocol aims to improve the MRI procedure and, most importantly, to standardise the method of conducting scans in all MRI departments. This is crucial for the initial diagnostics necessary for establishing a diagnosis, as well as for MS patient monitoring, which directly translates into significant clinical decisions.

MS is a chronic immune mediated inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS), the aetiology of which is still unknown. The nature of the disease lies in a CNS destruction process disseminated in time and space. MRI detects focal lesions in the white and grey matter with high sensitivity (although with significantly lower specificity in the latter). It is also the best tool to assess brain atrophy in patients with MS in terms of grey matter volume and white matter volume as well as local atrophy (by measuring the volume of thalamus, corpus callosum, subcortical nuclei, and hippocampus) as parameters that correlate with disability progression and cognitive dysfunctions. Progress in MR techniques, as well as advances in postprocessing the obtained data, has driven the dynamic development of computer programs that allow for a more repeatable assessment of brain atrophy in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. MRI is unquestionably the best diagnostic tool available to follow up the course of the disease and support clinicians in choosing the most appropriate treatment strategy for their MS patient. However, to diagnose and follow up MS patients on the basis of MRI in accordance with the latest standards, the MRI study must adhere to certain quality criteria. Such criteria are the subject of this paper.
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multiple sclerosis, magnetic resonance imaging, imaging protocol, guidelines




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