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Ectrims 2024 Conference Review

October 14, 2024 | Education, Event, Research, Training

ECTRIMS (European Committee for Treatment and Research in MS) is the world’s largest MS research meeting, taking place, this year, in Copenhagen, Denmark. It saw more than 8,500 researchers, healthcare providers, and advocates from 103 countries gather to share progress in advancing cures for multiple sclerosis at the 40th Annual Meeting of ECTRIMS.

Dr. John Mottershead has reviewed 11 presentations he found particularly interesting.

Those topics are:
–  Revised McDonald criteria 2023
–  Does high-dose simvastatin slow progression of disability in SPMS?
–  Efficacy of tolebrutinib in non-relapsing SPMS: the HERCULES trial
–  New clinical subtypes of MS identified
–  Unveiling specialists’ views on MS prognostication
–  Misdiagnosis of MS in an adult neurogenetics clinic
–  Safety and efficacy of frexalimab in RMS
–  Short-term B cell depletion results in long-term freedom from disease activity in some RMS patients
–  Impact of alternate-day fingolimod tapering on rebound disease activity in MS
–  B cell tailored dosing vs standard interval dosing of ocrelizumab
–  High efficacy treatment discontinuation vs continuation in patients older than 50 with stable MS

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