ECTRIMS 2024 HIGHLIGHTS – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
September 20, 2024…FRIDAY EDITION Discontinuing treatment in older patients An Italian study examined outcomes in 71 older MS patients who discontinued their disease-modifying therapy (Frau et al. ECTRIMS 2024;P821). Mean age at DMT discontinuation was 65.6 years, and mean duration of disease was 23.8 years. Two-thirds of patients had been treated with a first-line DMT; median EDSS score at discontinuation was 6.0. Disease activity on MRI was evident in 8.5% in the…