Treatment Options
Identifying lesions is often the first step in properly diagnosing conditions, after which time doctors and healthcare providers can come up with an appropriate course of treatment. In some cases, like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which causes progressive dementia, the presence of hyperintense lesions can help lead to the proper diagnosis: if the lesions aren’t noticed, a person might be misdiagnosed as having typical degenerative dementia. Lesions often act as signals to care providers, helping them run the right tests and scan for the right things. Actual treatment options necessarily vary from person to person, and depend on the specifics of where the lesions are and what has likely caused them. When they’re noticed early enough, though, they can make a big difference in diagnosis and care.