VALIDATION OF TWO NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL BATTERIES FOR ASSESSING FITNESS TO DRIVE IN PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS [PDF]
This thesis consists of a literature review and a research project investigating fitness to drive in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Driving ability is often affected in individuals with neurological conditions, but assessment methods for ...
Kontou, Eirini
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Evidence for grey matter MTR abnormality in minimally disabled patients with early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis [PDF]
Objectives: To establish whether magnetisation transfer ratio (MTR) histograms are sensitive to change in normal appearing grey matter (NAGM) in early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in the absence of significant disability; and to assess ...
Griffin, C M B +19 more
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ObjectiveTo characterize microstructural white matter changes related to relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis using advanced diffusion MRI modeling and tractography.
Ann-Marie Beaudoin +6 more
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Multiple Sclerosis Relapsing Remitting Progressive Type
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common neurologic demyelinating disease in high-income countries. The causes of MS is multifactorial involve genetics and the environment in which immune cell infiltration occurs across the blood-brain barrier, causing
Nora Fitri +2 more
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Predicting the On-Study Relapse Rate for Multiple Sclerosis Patients in Clinical Trials [PDF]
Background: The annual relapse rate has been commonly used as a primary efficacy endpoint in phase III multiple sclerosis (MS) clinical trials. The aim of this study was to determine the relative contribution of different possible prognostic factors ...
Chang, C. +8 more
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Presence and significant determinants of cognitive impairment in a large sample of patients with Multiple Sclerosis [PDF]
This work was supported by FISM - Fondazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla (www.aism.it) - Cod. 2009/R/17.Objectives: To investigate the presence and the nature of cognitive impairment in a large sample of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and to ...
Cavallo, Marco +23 more
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Assessment of potential cardiotoxic side effects of mitoxantrone in patients with multiple sclerosis [PDF]
Previous studies showed that mitoxantrone can reduce disability progression in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). There is, however, concern that it may cause irreversible cardiomyopathy with reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) and ...
Zingler, V. C. +6 more
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Serum S100B in primary progressive multiple sclerosis patients treated with interferon-beta-1a. [PDF]
S100B belongs to a family of calcium-binding proteins implicated in intracellular and extracellular regulatory activities. This study of serum S100B in primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) is based on data obtained from a randomized, controlled ...
Lim, Ee Tuan +17 more
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Review: ‘Gimme five’: future challenges in multiple sclerosis. ECTRIMS Lecture 2009 [PDF]
This article is based on the ECTRIMS lecture given at the 25th ECTRIMS meeting which was held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 9 to 12 September 2009. Five challenges have been identified: (1) safeguarding the principles of medical ethics; (2) optimizing the
Hohlfeld, Reinhard +2 more
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Prevalence of sexual disorders in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients depending on various risk factors [PDF]
Objective. Multiple sclerosis is a perilous, disabling, physically as well as mentally, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. This work aims to evaluate prevalence of sexual dysfunctions and their correspondence with non- and disease ...
Tetiana Odintsova, Oksana Kopchak
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