I'll Have Mayo With That ...

... Light Mayo Obviously

I came across an interesting article on the website of the Mayo Clinic recently. Doctors from the Mayo were the first to characterise CLIPPERS and of course define the CLIPPERS acronym. The article - Multiple Sclerosis Mimickers - discusses conditions that can be mistakenly diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis in the clinic. CLIPPERS is number two on the list, after Neuromyelitis Optica and before lymphoma. I'm sure I'm not the only one with first-hand experience of the diagnostic challenge that CLIPPERS presents. Really, the article is about recognising the contribution that Mayo researchers have made to our understanding of these diseases and conditions. Particularly interesting is how cases of what is now thought to be CLIPPERS were investigated by Dr Keegan very early in his career and then later in conjunction with Dr Pittock.

If anyone reading has picked up any interesting CLIPPERS-related snippets from the Mayo let me know and I'll post them here.

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A Cold Start to 2013

A slightly delayed Happy New Year to everyone. It's been a quiet Christmas break on all CLIPPERS fronts. Nothing seems to have changed either personally (still taking the tablets) or research-wise (nothing new that I have found).  I passed my blood-monitoring test just before Christmas which was a minor relief as the levels of various things have fluctuated a bit previously. The next scheduled medical appointment I have is at the "Demyelinating Clinic" with my consultant in February, even though CLIPPERS is not thought to be a demyelinating disease (see e.g. Pittock et al, but of course I am not a doctor) - there's not enough of us in London to have a CLIPPERS clinic!

Currently we're pretty much snowed in and, like the garden birds,  waiting for the cold air to shift back East!

Read other articles in this series at Living With CLIPPERS.

Living With CLIPPERS by Bill Crum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.