MS in children: an update on clinical diagnosis......
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:39 am
Multiple sclerosis in children: an update on clinical diagnosis, therapeutic strategies, and research
Amy Waldman MD, Prof Angelo Ghezzi MD, Amit Bar-Or MD, Yann Mikaeloff MD, Prof Marc Tardieu PhD, Prof Brenda Banwell MD
Summary
The clinical features, diagnostic challenges, neuroimaging appearance, therapeutic options, and pathobiological research progress in childhood—and adolescent—onset multiple sclerosis have been informed by many new insights in the past 7 years.
National programmes in several countries, collaborative research efforts, and an established international paediatric multiple sclerosis study group have contributed to revised clinical diagnostic definitions, identified clinical features of multiple sclerosis that differ by age of onset, and made recommendations regarding the treatment of paediatric multiple sclerosis.... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/paediatric
Amy Waldman MD, Prof Angelo Ghezzi MD, Amit Bar-Or MD, Yann Mikaeloff MD, Prof Marc Tardieu PhD, Prof Brenda Banwell MD
Summary
The clinical features, diagnostic challenges, neuroimaging appearance, therapeutic options, and pathobiological research progress in childhood—and adolescent—onset multiple sclerosis have been informed by many new insights in the past 7 years.
National programmes in several countries, collaborative research efforts, and an established international paediatric multiple sclerosis study group have contributed to revised clinical diagnostic definitions, identified clinical features of multiple sclerosis that differ by age of onset, and made recommendations regarding the treatment of paediatric multiple sclerosis.... Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/paediatric