{"title":"Erratum to \"Ofatumumab-induced severe reactivation of psoriasis in a patient with multiple sclerosis\" <i>Multiple Sclerosis Journal;</i> 2024: 30(8); 1086-1088. DOI: 10.1177/13524585241260564.","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/13524585241290986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585241290986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"13524585241290986"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142470314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Vercellino, Stella Marasciulo, Emanuela Ricotti, Anna Rolando, Chiara Bosa, Paola Garelli, Virginia Gallina, Giovanna Vaula, Andrea Calvo, Paola Cavalla
{"title":"Long-term modifications of the peripheral immune repertoire after switching from sequestering disease-modifying treatments in multiple sclerosis.","authors":"Marco Vercellino, Stella Marasciulo, Emanuela Ricotti, Anna Rolando, Chiara Bosa, Paola Garelli, Virginia Gallina, Giovanna Vaula, Andrea Calvo, Paola Cavalla","doi":"10.1177/13524585241284846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585241284846","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Scarce data are available on the long-term immunological effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) disease-modifying treatments (DMTs).</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the long-term modifications of the peripheral immune repertoire on interruption of a sequestering DMT (natalizumab, fingolimod) and switch to another high-efficacy DMT.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Lymphocyte subpopulations were assessed, every 6 months up to 48 months, in patients switched from fingolimod or natalizumab to ocrelizumab, and in patients switched from fingolimod to natalizumab, compared to patients switched to ocrelizumab or natalizumab from a moderate-efficacy DMT and to naive patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included 389 MS patients (200 ocrelizumab and 189 natalizumab). After adjusting for baseline variables, patients switched from fingolimod to ocrelizumab showed lower CD3 + and CD4 + lymphocytes up to 48 months after switch (with lower percentage of naive CD4 +), and increased odds of total, CD3+, CD4+ lymphopenia. Patients switched from natalizumab to ocrelizumab showed higher CD3 + lymphocytes up to 36 months after switch, and higher CD4+, CD8+ lymphocytes up to 24 months. The frequency of infections was not influenced by previous treatment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A long-term persistence of the residual effects of the exposure to sequestering DMTs (fingolimod and less natalizumab) on the peripheral immune repertoire was observed after switching to another high-efficacy DMT.</p>","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"13524585241284846"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142381287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in multiple sclerosis research, clinical trials, and workforce.","authors":"Lilyana Amezcua, Roy H Hamilton, Olga Ciccarelli","doi":"10.1177/13524585241286988","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241286988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1405-1408"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time to move past typical syndromes in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.","authors":"Christine Lebrun-Frenay, Darin T Okuda","doi":"10.1177/13524585241253519","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241253519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1570-1572"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140945527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eva A Krijnen, Rose-Marie Kouwenhoven, Samantha Noteboom, Frederik Barkhof, Bernard Mj Uitdehaag, Eric C Klawiter, Martijn D Steenwijk, Menno M Schoonheim, Ismail Koubiyr
{"title":"Subtypes and location of (juxta)cortical lesions relate to cognitive dysfunction in people with multiple sclerosis.","authors":"Eva A Krijnen, Rose-Marie Kouwenhoven, Samantha Noteboom, Frederik Barkhof, Bernard Mj Uitdehaag, Eric C Klawiter, Martijn D Steenwijk, Menno M Schoonheim, Ismail Koubiyr","doi":"10.1177/13524585241260968","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241260968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cortical lesion subtypes' occurrence and distribution across networks may shed light on cognitive impairment (CI) in multiple sclerosis (MS).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In 332 people with MS, lesions were classified as intracortical, leukocortical or juxtacortical based on artificially generated double inversion-recovery images.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CI-related leukocortical lesion count increases were greatest within sensorimotor and cognitive networks (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Only intracortical lesion count could distinguish between cognitive groups (<i>p</i> = 0.024). Effect sizes were two- to four-fold larger than differences between MS phenotypes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In CI-MS, leukocortical lesions predominate, whereas intracortical lesions distinguish cognitive groups. Lesions' grey matter (GM) involvement might be decisive for cognition in MS, surpassing overall disease burden.</p>","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1556-1560"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141317817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro Rivero-de-Aguilar, Mónica Pérez-Ríos, Marta Mascareñas-García, Alberto Ruano-Raviña, Joseph S Ross, Beatriz Casal-Acción, Leonor Varela-Lema
{"title":"Discrepancies in the results reported for multiple sclerosis clinical trials: A comparison between ClinicalTrials.gov and peer-reviewed journals.","authors":"Alejandro Rivero-de-Aguilar, Mónica Pérez-Ríos, Marta Mascareñas-García, Alberto Ruano-Raviña, Joseph S Ross, Beatriz Casal-Acción, Leonor Varela-Lema","doi":"10.1177/13524585241273089","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241273089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We aimed to compare the results of phase III and IV clinical trials examining drugs to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) registered at ClinicalTrials.gov to those published in peer-reviewed journals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>After identifying trials registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, consecutive searches were conducted in PubMed, EMBASE and Google Scholar for matching publications. Information regarding participants and efficacy and safety results was extracted and compared. The degree of consistency was classified as 'concordant', 'discrepant' or 'not comparable'. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to model time to reporting.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 65 trials were appraised. The median time from completion to reporting was shorter for ClinicalTrials.gov (16.4 vs 27.3 months; <i>p</i> = 0.010). Information availability was generally higher in journals except for serious adverse events (SAEs) (86.2% vs 100.0%, <i>p</i> = 0.029) and their description (78.2% vs 100.0%, <i>p</i> < 0.001). However, 45 trials had at least one reporting discrepancy (69.2%). Three studies omitted one or more primary outcomes in the matching journal publication. Regarding safety results, the lowest consistencies were found for causes of death (60.0%) and description of SAEs (27.9%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Consulting both ClinicalTrials.gov and journals increases the accessibility to MS clinical trial results. Some data were frequently missing or disagreed between sources, raising concerns about transparency and generalizability of results.</p>","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1514-1524"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142073328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tom A Fuchs, Menno M Schoonheim, Robert Zivadinov, Michael G Dwyer, Elisa Colato, Zachary Weinstock, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Eva Mm Strijbis, Ralph Hb Benedict
{"title":"Cognitive progression independent of relapse in multiple sclerosis.","authors":"Tom A Fuchs, Menno M Schoonheim, Robert Zivadinov, Michael G Dwyer, Elisa Colato, Zachary Weinstock, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Eva Mm Strijbis, Ralph Hb Benedict","doi":"10.1177/13524585241256540","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241256540","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Substantial physical-disability worsening in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) occurs outside of clinically recorded relapse. This phenomenon, termed progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA), is yet to be established for cognitive decline.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Retrospective analysis of RRMS patients. Cognitive decline was defined using reliable-change-index cut-offs for each test (Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised, California Verbal Learning Test-II). Decline was classified as PIRA if the following conditions were met: no relapse observed between assessments nor within 9 months of cognitive decline.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study sample (<i>n</i> = 336) was 80.7% female with a mean (standard deviation (SD)) age, disease duration, and observation period of 43.1 (9.5), 10.8 (8.4), and 8.1 (3.1) years, respectively. A total of 169 (50.3%) subjects were cognitively impaired at baseline relative to age-, sex-, and education-matched HCs. Within subjects who experienced cognitive decline (<i>n</i> = 167), 89% experienced cognitive PIRA. A total of 141 (68.1%) cognitive decline events were observed independent of EDSS worsening. Cognitive PIRA was more likely to be observed with increased assessments (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and lower assessment density (<i>p</i> < 0.001), accounting for baseline clinical factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These results establish the concept of cognitive PIRA and further our understanding of progressive cognitive decline in RRMS.</p>","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1468-1478"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142080966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progression independent of relapse activity in multiple sclerosis: Time to account for cognitive decline.","authors":"Carmen Tur, Emilio Portaccio","doi":"10.1177/13524585241273037","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241273037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1389-1391"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142080967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alex Ocampo, Farhad Hatami, Jelena Čuklina, Gordon Graham, Habib Ganjgahi, Yang Sun, Wendy Su, Marie-Catherine Mousseau, Stephen Gardiner, Samantha C Pendleton, Piet Aarden, Bernd C Kieseier, Douglas L Arnold, Robert A Bermel, Dieter A Häring, Thomas E Nichols, Heinz Wiendl
{"title":"Prognostic factors for worsening and improvement in multiple sclerosis using a multistate model.","authors":"Alex Ocampo, Farhad Hatami, Jelena Čuklina, Gordon Graham, Habib Ganjgahi, Yang Sun, Wendy Su, Marie-Catherine Mousseau, Stephen Gardiner, Samantha C Pendleton, Piet Aarden, Bernd C Kieseier, Douglas L Arnold, Robert A Bermel, Dieter A Häring, Thomas E Nichols, Heinz Wiendl","doi":"10.1177/13524585241275471","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241275471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The long-term disease trajectory of people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) can be improved by initiating efficacious treatment early. More quantitative evidence is needed on factors that affect a patient's risk of disability worsening or possibility of improvement to inform timely treatment decisions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed a multistate model to quantify the influence of demographic, clinical, and imaging factors on disability worsening and disability improvement simultaneously across the disability spectrum as measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). We used clinical trial data from the Novartis-Oxford MS database including ~130,000 EDSS assessments from ~8000 patients, spanning all MS phenotypes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher brain volume was positively associated with disability improvement at all disability levels (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.09-1.19; 95% credible interval (CI) = 1.02-1.27). Higher T2 lesion volume was negatively associated with disability improvement up to EDSS 6 (HR = 0.80-0.89; 95% CI = 0.75-0.94). Older age, time since first symptoms, and the number of relapses in the past year were confirmed as predictors of future disability worsening.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Brain damage was identified as the most consistent factor limiting the patient's probability for improvements from the earliest stages and across the whole course of MS. Protecting brain integrity early in MS should have greater weight in clinical decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1455-1467"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142350379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karl D Heward, Chantal Roy-Hewitson, Andrew J Solomon
{"title":"Multiple sclerosis presenting with paroxysmal symptoms: Patients at the limitations of current diagnostic criteria.","authors":"Karl D Heward, Chantal Roy-Hewitson, Andrew J Solomon","doi":"10.1177/13524585241253513","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13524585241253513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Paroxysmal neurological symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) have long been acknowledged. However, consideration of whether such symptoms are a clinical attack and sufficient for fulfillment of MS diagnostic criteria has varied as criteria have evolved over time. Previous studies and anecdotal reports indicate that some patients with MS first present with syndromes such as trigeminal neuralgia, Lhermitte's phenomenon, tonic spasm, and seizure years before an attack typical of MS such as optic neuritis or myelitis. We discuss four patients with presumed MS who initially presented with these syndromes with evidence of a corresponding central nervous system (CNS) lesion who, were these symptoms considered an attack, could have been diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS or clinically isolated syndrome. This case series aims to highlight the unmet need for data for such patient presentations and for clinical guidance from future MS diagnostic criteria to optimize care.</p>","PeriodicalId":18874,"journal":{"name":"Multiple Sclerosis Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1566-1570"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140945521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}