Measurement of atrophy in multiple sclerosis: pathological basis, methodological aspects and clinical relevance

DH Miller, F Barkhof, JA Frank, GJM Parker… - Brain, 2002 - academic.oup.com
MRI methods are widely used to follow the pathological evolution of multiple sclerosis in life
and its modification by treatment. To date, measures of the number and volume of …

The measurement and clinical relevance of brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis

RA Bermel, R Bakshi - The Lancet Neurology, 2006 - thelancet.com
Brain atrophy has emerged as a clinically relevant component of disease progression in
multiple sclerosis. Progressive loss of brain tissue bulk can be detected in vivo in a sensitive …

European/Canadian multicenter, double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled study of the effects of glatiramer acetate on magnetic resonance imaging–measured …

G Comi, M Filippi, JS Wolinsky… - Annals of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Two prior double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, randomized trials demonstrated that glatiramer
acetate (GA) reduces relapse rates in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis …

Statistical analysis of longitudinal neuroimage data with linear mixed effects models

JL Bernal-Rusiel, DN Greve, M Reuter, B Fischl… - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Longitudinal neuroimaging (LNI) studies are rapidly becoming more prevalent and growing
in size. Today, no standardized computational tools exist for the analysis of LNI data and …

Brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis: mechanisms, clinical relevance and treatment options

A Andravizou, E Dardiotis, A Artemiadis… - Autoimmunity …, 2019 - Springer
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system
characterized by focal or diffuse inflammation, demyelination, axonal loss and …

Assessing brain atrophy rates in a large population of untreated multiple sclerosis subtypes

N De Stefano, A Giorgio, M Battaglini, M Rovaris… - Neurology, 2010 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To assess the time course of brain atrophy and the difference across clinical
subtypes in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: The percent brain volume change (PBVC) was …

Immunological aspects of approved MS therapeutics

PS Rommer, R Milo, MH Han, S Satyanarayan… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurological immune-mediated disease leading
to disability in young adults. The outcome of the disease is unpredictable, and over time …

Optimizing treatment success in multiple sclerosis

T Ziemssen, T Derfuss, N de Stefano, G Giovannoni… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Despite important advances in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) over recent years, the
introduction of several disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), the burden of progressive …

Sex differences in autoimmune diseases

R Voskuhl - Biology of sex differences, 2011 - Springer
Women are more susceptible to a variety of autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE), multiple sclerosis (MS), primary biliary cirrhosis, rheumatoid arthritis …

Multiple sclerosis: the role of MR imaging

Y Ge - American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2006 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
MR offers by far the most sensitive technique for detecting multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions
and has proved to be an important paraclinical tool for diagnosing MS and monitoring …