Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wilkins, Alastair (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Progressive multiple sclerosis places a huge burden on individuals, carers and society and treatment options are currently limited. However, there have been significant recent advances in understanding progressive disease and this book draws the field together into a single, accessible, clinically f...

Table of Contents:

• General introduction.- What is disease progression?.- Epidemiology of progressive multiple sclerosis
• The neuropathology of progressive multiple sclerosis
• Mechanisms of disease progression
• Imaging disease progression
• Biomarkers of disease progression
• Symptomatic treatment for progressive multiple sclerosis
• Current treatments for progressive multiple sclerosis: disease modifying therapies
• Future therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis.