Cerebral-spinal fluid molecular test improves early and accurate diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-based molecular tests can reliably distinguish multiple sclerosis (MS) from other neurological ...

Belay Diagnostics Announces the Validation of Summit(TM) 2.0 Comprehensive Genomic Profile Assay in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)

Summit (TM) 2.0 is a CSF-based liquid biopsy assay designed to enable comprehensive genomic profiling for characterization of CNS tumors. CNS malignancies present unique diagnostic challenges, as ...
Medscape

Chronic Rhinorrhoea in a Woman Leads to CSF Leak Diagnosis

A 74-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with headache, fever, intermittent right-sided otorrhoea, and rhinorrhoea. Analysis of nasal discharge confirmed the presence of beta-2-transferrin. CT ...
Case Western Reserve University

Cerebrospinal Fluid Protocol

Diagnostic testing of CSF for surrogate disease markers (i.e., 14-3-3 and total tau) assumes that the patient had a history of acute dementia but did not have several conditions that might compromise ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, also called pseudotumor cerebri, refers to elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure that develops most often in women of reproductive age with obesity, causing ...