Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wilkins, Alastair (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Neurology .; Internal medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Neurology.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

This revised, updated second edition draws together the basic science, pathology, epidemiology and treatment possibilities in progressive multiple sclerosis. Each chapter addresses specific aspects of progressive multiple sclerosis providing an extensive review of the current literature and a discus...

Table of Contents:

• General introduction
• What is disease progression?- Clinical scales of disease progression and disability
• Primary progressive MS
• Epidemiology of progressive multiple sclerosis
• The neuropathology of progressive multiple sclerosis
• Mechanisms of disease progression
• Axonal injury
• Imaging disease progression
• Biomarkers of disease progression
• Symptomatic treatment for progressive multiple sclerosis
• Trials of licenced RRMS disease modifying therapies in progressive MS
• Trials of novel therapies specifically for progressive MS
• Rehabilitation
• Future therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis.