When do you consider CSF testing for patients with suspected ALS?
If so, what tests are you sending?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
CSF biomarkers [i.e. neurofilament] are being researched and developed. We expect more biomarkers to come to the clinical practice over the next few years. The utility of CSF analysis in ALS rests on excluding mimickers of ALS [i.e. elevated protein in inflammatory motor neuropatyhies, etc]. Neurof...