summary: The authors compared a group of people who had experienced a first episode compatible with MS with a group of healthy controls, by means of a new tool for quantifying axonal loss, the optical coherence tomography (OCT). They found that OCT measurements were not significantly different between people with a first episode of MS and healthy controls and also that OCT parameters, when measured after a first episode of MS, did not predict the appearance of a second episode.

authors: Outteryck O, Zephir H, Defoort S, Bouyon M, Debruyne P, Bouacha I, Ferriby D, Lacour A, Labalette P, de Seze J, Vermersch P

source: Arch Neurol. 2009 Nov;66(11):1373-7

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