Recognizing and treating suboptimally controlled multiple sclerosis: Steps toward regaining command

Current Medical Research and Opinion

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2459-2470

  Freedman, Mark S ^a   Cohen, Bruce ^b   Dhib Jalbut, Suhayl ^c   Jeffery, Douglas ^d   Reder, Anthony T ^e   Sandberg Wollheim, Magnhild ^f   Weinstock Guttman, Bianca ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g JACOBS NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease management; Disease progression; Drug therapy; Relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis; Treatment failure

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA INTERFERON; BETA1A INTERFERON; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACLIZUMAB; DOXYCYCLINE; GLATIRAMER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; NATALIZUMAB; PLACEBO;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDLINE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 70350098361     PISSN: 03007995     EISSN: 14734877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1185/03007990903158364     Document Type: Review

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