Reaching an evidence-based prognosis for personalized treatment of multiple sclerosis

D Rotstein, X Montalban - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Personalized treatment is ideal for multiple sclerosis (MS) owing to the heterogeneity of
clinical features, but current knowledge gaps, including validation of biomarkers and …

MAGNIMS consensus recommendations on the use of brain and spinal cord atrophy measures in clinical practice

J Sastre-Garriga, D Pareto, M Battaglini… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Early evaluation of treatment response and prediction of disease evolution are key issues in
the management of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In the past 20 years, MRI has …

Ponesimod compared with teriflunomide in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis in the active-comparator phase 3 OPTIMUM study: a randomized clinical trial

L Kappos, RJ Fox, M Burcklen, MS Freedman… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance To our knowledge, the Oral Ponesimod Versus Teriflunomide In Relapsing
Multiple Sclerosis (OPTIMUM) trial is the first phase 3 study comparing 2 oral disease …

Silent progression in disease activity–free relapsing multiple sclerosis

University of California, San Francisco MS … - Annals of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Rates of worsening and evolution to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
(MS) may be substantially lower in actively treated patients compared to natural history …

Beneficial effects of autologous mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in active progressive multiple sclerosis

P Petrou, I Kassis, N Levin, F Paul, Y Backner… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In this study (trial registration: NCT02166021), we aimed to evaluate the optimal way of
administration, the safety and the clinical efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) …

Long‐term evolution of multiple sclerosis disability in the treatment era

University of California, San Francisco MS … - Annals of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To characterize the accrual of long‐term disability in a cohort of actively treated
multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and to assess whether clinical and magnetic resonance …

Clinical outcome measures in multiple sclerosis: a review

H Inojosa, D Schriefer, T Ziemssen - Autoimmunity reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
A proper clinical evaluation of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is of great importance to
detect MS progression. It provides important data for physicians on their daily practice as …

Early highly effective versus escalation treatment approaches in relapsing multiple sclerosis

D Ontaneda, E Tallantyre, T Kalincik… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis are complex given the large number of disease-
modifying therapies with diverse safety and efficacy profiles. The importance of early …

Outcome measures in clinical trials for multiple sclerosis

CEP van Munster, BMJ Uitdehaag - CNS drugs, 2017 - Springer
Due to the heterogeneous nature of the disease, it is a challenge to capture disease activity
of multiple sclerosis (MS) in a reliable and valid way. Therefore, it can be difficult to assess …

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 …