I have been using the MSDA in my clinic for about a year now. I have found it to be a reliable indicator of suspected, known, and in a few cases, impending, disease activity. When to order it and why is where I think we need to do some work. Some examples where I think it has been useful for my pati...

The researchers looked at three measures of disease activity; actively inflamed lesions, new or enlarging lesions, and overall disease activity (as measured by MRI scans and/or clinical signs) when studying the test.To assess the test’s accuracy, the scientists used a statistical measure calle...