Demyelinating Disease: What It Is, Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
网页A demyelinating disease is a condition that causes a damage to the myelin in your brain, spinal cord and nerves. Myelin is a protective cover (sheath) around the body section (axon) of nerve cells (neurons) in your central and peripheral nervous system.
Demyelination: What Is It and Why Does It Happen? - Healthline
网页2014年3月27日 · Demyelination is damage to the myelin sheath around nerves. It plays a part in several chronic conditions, including multiple sclerosis. Learn more about types of demyelination and why it...
Demyelinating disease: What can you do about it? - Mayo Clinic
网页2024年4月27日 · Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. In this disease, the immune system attacks the myelin sheath or the cells that produce and maintain it. The attack causes swelling, also known as inflammation, and injury to the myelin sheath.
Demyelinating Disorders: Types, Causers, Symptoms, Treatments - WebMD
网页2022年9月6日 · Demyelinating disorders are any conditions that damage myelin. When this happens, scar tissue forms in its place. Brain signals can’t move across scar tissue as quickly, so your nerves don’t work...
Demyelinating disease - Wikipedia
网页Demyelinating diseases are traditionally classified into two types: demyelinating myelinoclastic diseases and demyelinating leukodystrophic diseases. In the first group, a healthy and normal myelin is destroyed by toxic substances, chemicals, or …
Demyelination and Demyelinating Disease - Verywell Health
网页2024年4月14日 · Demyelination occurs throughout the brain and brain stem and can progress rapidly over weeks or more slowly over a few years. Symptoms vary based on areas of the brain affected but can include headaches, seizures, gradual paralysis, muscle spasms, or cognitive impairment.
Overview of Demyelinating Disorders - Overview of …
网页The most commonly affected areas in the CNS are the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. Demyelination tends to be segmental or patchy, affecting multiple areas simultaneously or sequentially. Remyelination often occurs, with repair, regeneration, and complete recovery of neural function.
Demyelinating disease: What is it, types, causes - Medical News Today
网页2022年10月27日 · Demyelinating diseases damage the myelin layer, or the protective coating of nerve cells in a process called demyelination. Learn more here.
Demyelinating Diseases of the CNS (Brain and Spine)
网页2020年2月15日 · Demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) that affect the brain and spine have a variety of etiologies and can be separated into primary such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and other idiopathic inflammatory-demyelinating diseases (IIDDs) and secondary (e.g., infectious, ischemic, metabolic, or toxic) diseases.
Overview of Demyelinating Disorders - Overview of …
网页Destruction of the myelin sheath is called demyelination. Some disorders that cause demyelination have no known cause. These disorders are called primary demyelinating disorders.