BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Compared with conventional T2-weighted MR imaging, diffusion tensor MR imaging provides quantitative indices with increased specificity to the most destructive aspects of multiple sclerosis. In this study, we obtained brain mean diffusivity (_D) and fractional anisotropy histograms of patients with multiple sclerosis to compare them with those of healthy volunteers and to...

Objectives—To find whether CSF analysis may diVerentiate between relapsingremitting and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Methods—In 17 patients with relapsingremitting and 16 patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, all without current or recent relapses, albumin CSF: peripheral blood ratio, mononuclear cell number, CD4+, CD8+, and B1+ subsets, CD4+:CD8+ ratio, IgG, IgG ...

AIM To determine guidelines for use of beta-interferons in South African patients with multiple sclerosis. METHOD Review of existing international protocols. Opinions of South African neurologists who have an interest in multiple sclerosis. CONCLUSIONS The main indication for interferon use is the relapsing and remitting form of multiple sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder of central nervous system. This demyelinating disease affects more than 2.3 million people world wild. Most of patients are young adult. The most common type of MS is relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). However there is no cure, available modifying therapies has revolutionized the care of patients with RRMS. Interferon (IFN) be...

BACKGROUND Treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis with interferon beta is only partly effective, and new more effective and safe strategies are needed. Our aim was to assess the efficacy of oral methylprednisolone as an add-on therapy to subcutaneous interferon beta-1a to reduce the yearly relapse rate in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. METHODS NORMIMS (NORd...

Sera of 106 multiple sclerosis patients and 103 closely matched controls were examined for Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies. The prevalence rate in multiple sclerosis patients was 14.2%, in controls 25.2%. Overall prevalence was 20.1%. Mean IgG antibody level was insignificantly higher in controls than in multiple sclerosis patients. Patients with a chronic progressive course of multiple scleros...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Persistently hypointense lesions on T1-weighted MR images have been shown to correlate with the amount of axonal damage and clinical disability in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether diffusion coefficient D(av) and fractional anisotropy (FA) are able to detect quantifiable differences among three groups of focal nonactive...

UNLABELLED Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease that affects the central nervous system. Clinical presentation and prevalence vary widely around the world. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and epidemiological aspects of patients with MS in Uberaba (MG). METHOD We conducted a transversal descriptive study, with data analysis of 35 patients with MS. RESULTS Prevalence of ...

The main aim of the study is to evaluate efficacy and safety profile Ocrelizumab (OCR), Rituximab (RTX), Cladribine (CLA), employed as Natalizumab (NTZ) exit-strategies in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) patients at high-risk for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).

term outcomes. A long-term study examined survival in a cohort of patients (n = 372) who had participated in a pivotal randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of interferon beta in relapsing-remitting MS [5] . After a median of 21.1 years from the time of enrollment, 98% of patients were identified and 81 deaths were recorded. Early treatment was associated with prolonged survival, as evi...