A Patient Has Been Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for 10

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Multiple Choice

A patient has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) for 10 years and has a history of 3 periods of neurologic dysfunction lasting several weeks separated by long periods of full recovery. In the past 6 months, the patient has had a prolonged period of neurologic dysfunction without remission. The nurse understands that the patient may have which MS subtype?

• A) Primary progressive MS
• B) Progressive-relapsing MS
• C) Relapsing-remitting MS
• D) Secondary progressive MS

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Definitions:

Somatic Symptoms

Physical symptoms that are not fully explained by a general medical condition, often associated with psychological distress.

Conversion Disorder

A mental condition where a person experiences physical neurological symptoms, such as blindness or paralysis, that are not explainable by medical evaluation.

Functional Neurological

Disorders where patients experience neurological symptoms without a clear structural problem in the nervous system, believed to result from psychological stress.

Optic Nerve

A crucial nerve in the visual system that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain.