​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Demyelinating Diseases

​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Demyelinating Diseases
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS)
• Relapsing and chronic progressive forms
• Acute MS
• Neuromyelitis optica (Devic’s disease)
DIFFUSE CEREBRAL SCLEROSIS
• Schilder’s encephalitis periaxialis diffusa
• Baló’s concentric sclerosis
ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
• After measles, chickenpox, rubella, influenza, mumps
• After rabies or smallpox vaccination
NECROTIZING HEMORRHAGIC ENCEPHALITIS
• Hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
LEUKODYSTROPHIES
• Krabbe’s globoid leukodystrophy
• Metachromatic leukodystrophy
• Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Adrenomyeloneuropathy
• Pelizaeus-Merzbacher leukodystrophy
• Canavan’s disease
• Alexander’s disease