CLINICAL CASES IN MS

CLINICAL CASES IN MS: A PATIENT CONSIDERING TREATMENT DISCONTINUATION

 

Click here to watch Dr. Caitlin Jackson-Tarlton discuss the case and your responses to the quick poll.

P.B. is a 57-year-old woman with a 24-year history of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.  She was treated with an injectable from 2002-2012. Her last relapse was in 2009. She was transitioned to fingolimod in 2012 because of ongoing MRI changes and increasing tolerability issues. Read More

CLINICAL CASES IN MS: A PATIENT WITH MRI LESIONS CONSISTENT WITH MS

 

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J.M. is a 28-year-old woman who had an MRI of the brain ordered by her nurse practitioner because of worsening of longstanding migraine headaches. The MRI demonstrated several lesions consistent with MS including two small enhancing lesions and multiple nonspecific supratentorial T2 hyperintensities. Your review of the history reveals nothing suggestive of a demyelinating episode. There is no family history of MS. She has an older brother with ulcerative colitis. The neurological examination was completely normal with borderline questionable pallor of the left optic disc.

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CLINICAL CASES IN MS: A 42 Y.O. WOMAN WITH A SEVERE RELAPSE ON DMF

 

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J.T. is a 42-year-old woman previously well except for frequent urinary tract infections, which included an episode of pyelonephritis with no known anatomical abnormality. She initially presented with two relapses about six months apart, a mild optic neuritis and a mild sensory myelopathy with excellent spontaneous recovery. Her EDSS score was 1.0.  She was started on dimethyl fumarate. Read More

CLINICAL CASES IN MS: A 24 Y.O. WOMAN WITH PARESTHESIAE AND NON-ENHANCING LESIONS

 

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R.M. is a 24-year-old woman who works at a daycare centre. She is referred from the emergency room because of a two-week history of paresthesiae in both legs and the mid and lower trunk. She is not aware of any weakness. There is no bladder disturbance. She has a subjective mid truncal sensory level. Prior history includes a Bell’s palsy three years ago which was painless and resolved without treatment in 3-4 weeks. Read More

CLINICAL CASES IN MS: A PATIENT WITH WORSENING FATIGUE AND NEW MOBILITY PROBLEMS

 

Click here to watch Dr. Daniel Selchen discuss the case and the responses to the survey.

D.C. is a 41-year-old woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 14 years ago. She was treated initially with a beta interferon. She experienced ongoing disease activity and was transitioned to natalizumab 10 years ago. She was completely stable for six years. She was switched to fingolimod after a significant change in JCV index. She had no MRI changes on natalizumab and a few new MRI lesions on fingolimod. She had no new lesions while on natalizumab and few MRI changes on fingolimod. Her EDSS score a year ago was 1.5 (vision 1, sensory 1, bladder 1).

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