P.081 Evolving treatment of pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis in Alberta

Social cognition in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (MS).

BACKGROUND Pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (MS) patients represent a subpopulation who are diagnosed during the course of development. Social cognitive deficits have recently been recognized in adults with MS. It is critical to identify whether these youngest patients with the disorder are also at risk. OBJECTIVE To determine whether pediatric-onset MS is associated with social cognitive d...

Multiple sclerosis onset during etanercept treatment.

Case Report A 36-year-old woman with psoriatic arthritis who had received etanercept for 4 months (25 mg s.c. twice weekly) presented with a 1-week history of right eye pain and vision decline. Three weeks previously, she had developed the same symptoms in the left eye that resolved spontaneously. There was no family history of neurological disorders. Two years previously, she received (partial...

MRI-based diagnostic biomarkers for early onset pediatric multiple sclerosis

Currently, it is unclear whether pediatric multiple sclerosis (PMS) is a pathoetiologically homogeneous disease phenotype due to clinical and epidemiological differences between early and late onset PMS (EOPMS and LOPMS). Consequently, the question was raised whether diagnostic guidelines need to be complemented by specific EOPMS markers. To search for such markers, we analyzed cerebral MRI ima...

Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.

Clinical and Epidemiological Features of Early and Adult Onset Multiple Sclerosis in Hamedan, Iran, 2004–2005

Mazaheri Sh1, Fazlian MM2, Hossein Zadeh A3 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Faculty of medicine, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences 2. General practitioner, Specialty and Subspecialty Hospital of Besat, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences 3. General practitioner, Hamedan Health Center Abstract Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common causes of chr...