Corneal confocal microscopy demonstrates axonal loss in different courses of multiple sclerosis

Abstract Axonal loss is the main determinant of disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS). This study aimed to assess the utility of corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) in detecting corneal axonal loss in different courses of MS. The results were confirmed by two independent segmentation methods....

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Main Authors: Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Kathryn C. Fitzgerald, Jonathan Oakley, Georgios Ponirakis, Adnan Khan, Hoda Gad, Pooja George, Dirk Deleu, Beatriz G. Canibano, Naveed Akhtar, Ashfaq Shuaib, Ahmed Own, Taimur Malik, Daniel B. Russakoff, Joseph L. Mankowski, Stuti L. Misra, Charles N. J. McGhee, Peter Calabresi, Shiv Saidha, Saadat Kamran, Rayaz A. Malik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01226-1