[Multiple sclerosis: beyong first line therapies]

Rev Med Suisse. 2012 May 2;8(339):946-9.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We are currently experiencing a key period in the management of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. The application of new criteria allows early diagnosis, thus at a stage when the available immune treatments are the most likely to show a good efficacy. The therapeutic offer is expanding but its complexity too. It is thus important, for a given patient, to assess as precisely as possible the degree of severity of his/her disease, in order to give the drug with the optimal risk/benefit ratio.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic / therapeutic use
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / therapeutic use
  • Choice Behavior
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Fingolimod Hydrochloride
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Immunotherapy
  • Multiple Sclerosis / drug therapy
  • Multiple Sclerosis / therapy*
  • Natalizumab
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Propylene Glycols / therapeutic use
  • Sphingosine / analogs & derivatives
  • Sphingosine / therapeutic use
  • Therapies, Investigational / methods
  • Therapies, Investigational / statistics & numerical data

Substances

  • Adjuvants, Immunologic
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
  • Immunosuppressive Agents
  • Natalizumab
  • Propylene Glycols
  • Fingolimod Hydrochloride
  • Sphingosine