Background: CLASSIC-MS explored long-term outcomes of patients treated with cladribine tablets.
Objective: Assess long-term efficacy in patients previously enrolled in ORACLE-MS, a Phase III parent trial.
Methods: ...
Correale, Jorge(American Medical Association, 2025-03-03)
This Viewpoint discusses the unique needs of patients with multiple sclerosis and frailty and describes the gaps that should be addressed in frailty measurement and clinical management.
Live-attenuated vaccines provide robust immunity against diseases like tuberculosis, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, yellow fever, dengue, typhoid fever, and varicella, with just one or a few doses. However, concerns arise ...
Astrocytes constitute the most abundant type of glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) and display significant heterogeneity. Astrocytes actively engage in various metabolic processes and are active contributors ...
The use of additional cladribine tablets treatment courses is becoming an option in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) showing disease activity after treatment initiation. Despite the availability over the past year of ...
Background: Predicting treatment response and disease progression in multiple sclerosis (MS) is challenging. Treatment Response Scoring Systems (TRSS) are potentially useful, but their utility in patients receiving ...
What is this summary about?: Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD for short) is a rare autoimmune health condition, meaning that the body's natural defense system (the immune system) attacks the body's own tissues. ...
Carrera Silva, Eugenio Antonio; Correale, Jorge; Rothlin, Carla V.; Ortiz Wilczyñski, Juan Manuel(American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 2024-10-08)
Progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS) represents the worsening phase of the disease by accumulative neurodegeneration and disability, mainly refractory to current treatments. The therapeutic options remain challenging based ...
In recent years, there has been significant advancement in the utilization of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnostic evaluation of patients with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). The 2017 McDonald criteria have ...
Correale, Jorge; Solomon, Andrew J.; Cohen, Jeffrey A.; Banwell, Brenda L.; Gracia, Fernando; Gyang, Tirisham V.; Diaz de Bedoya, Fernando Hamuy; Harnegie, Mary Pat; Hemmer, Bernhard; Jacob, Anu; Kim, Ho Jin; Marrie, Ruth Ann; Mateen, Farrah J.; Newsome, Scott D.; Pandit, Lekha; Prayoonwiwat, Naraporn; Sahraian, Mohammad A.; Sato, Douglas K.; Saylor, Deanna R.; Shi, Fu-Dong; Siva, Aksel; Tan, Kevin; Viswanathan, Shanthi; Wattjes, Mike P.; Weinshenker, Brian G.; Yamout, Bassem; Fujihara, Kazuo(Lancet Pub. Group, 2024-10)
The differential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can present specific challenges in patients from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, eastern Europe, southeast Asia, and the Western Pacific. In these areas, environmental ...
Evidence from both epidemiological and experimental studies, implicate infections present during childhood and young adulthood to the development and/or exacerbation of MS. Possible infectious agents include Epstein–Barr ...
Background: Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) shortens with age and may be related to multiple sclerosis (MS).
Objective: We hypothesize that chronologically young people with MS (pwMS) with short LTL behave similarly to ...
Background: Immunosuppressive therapies as azathioprine (AZA), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and rituximab (RTX) are widely prescribed as first-line treatment to prevent relapses in NMOSD. However, the rate of response to ...
Objective: Susac syndrome (SuS), multiple sclerosis (MS), and primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS) present diagnostic challenges due to overlapping clinical features. We aimed to enhance diagnostic precision ...
Kalaria, Raj; Maestre, Gladys; Mahinrad, Simin; Acosta, Daisy; Akinyemi, Rufus; Alladi, Suvarna; Allegri, Ricardo Francisco; Arshad, Faheem; Babalola, David Oluwasayo; Baiyewu, Olusegun; Bak, Thomas H.; Bellaj, Tarek; Brodie-Mends, David K.; Carrillo, María C.; Celestin, Kaputu-Kalala-Malu; Damasceno, Albertino; de Silva, Ranil Karunamuni; de Silva, Rohan; Djibuti, Mamuka; Dreyer, Anna Jane(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2024-05-02)
Two of every three persons living with dementia reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The projected increase in global dementia rates is expected to affect LMICs disproportionately. However, the majority of ...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that primarily affects young adults, predominantly females. This was partially attributed to sex differences in ...
We aimed to assess the treatment strategies utilized in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) experiencing relapses, including their frequency, types, and response after 6 months based on the Expanded ...
Objective: The aim was to evaluate patient profiles, effectiveness and safety of cladribine (CLAD) in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in Argentina.
Methods: This was a substudy included in RelevarEM ...