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How frequently is optic neuritis related to ms?

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Infrequent: If optic neuritis alone without any MRI lesions otherwise, the risk of eventual ms is about 25%, so there is not a direct one to one risk. Regardless of the above, important to find out why one does have optic neuritis, and very important to treat asap to reverse the process.

Answered 6/10/2014

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