Victoria Johnson

Researchers observed improvements in motor and respiratory function and biomarkers in the investigational treatment group.

The VBP-LTE study found no evidence of slowed linear growth, insulin resistance, or osteocalcin decreases.

AC Immune SA is also developing an optimized formulation being tested in mice and non-human primates.

Two-year data from the SUNFISH study were presented at the MDA 2021 Clinical and Scientific Conference.

The AURORA collaboration studied pooled study data from 6 randomized studies of ET in ischemic stroke.

Researchers conducted a real-world study of prednisone to deflazacort switch in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy.

Researchers from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia, found that plasma neurofilament light levels predict no evidence of disease activity status as well as NEDA plus brain volume loss status.

Researchers used predictive swallowing score to help guide decision making in gastric tube placement.

Researchers also found that compared to direct to CT patients, DTAS patients has lower onset-to-reperfusion and door-to-groin times.

Researchers found that physical activity as measured by wearable devices was significantly associated with in-person measures of strength and function in patients with CMT.

Age, sex, EDSS score, and recent methylprednisolone use were all identified as risk factors for developing severe COVID-19.

Researchers conducted a pooled safety analysis of the FIREFISH, SUNFISH, and JEWELFISH studies.

Ishu Arpan, PhD, senior research associate at Oregon Health & Science University, also discussed further studies she would like to see conducted in MS falls.

LT-001 and LT-002 followed up patients treated with onasemnogene abeparvovec from the START, STRONG, STR1VE, and STR1VE-EU studies.

Researchers also found that, in comparing ataluren to standard care, ataluren delayed loss in pulmonary function.

In assessing patients treated with siponimod, researchers also saw that plasma neurofilament light levels slightly predicted a reduced risk of disease worsening.

Researchers from Kaohsiung Medical University performed a meta-analysis of 18 RCTs to investigate associations between ASMs and sleep parameters.

Researchers found that the proportion of patients meeting DNC criteria suitable for organ donation increased after teleneurology use.

Researchers found that GCIPL thickness, along with disease duration of at least 9 years at baseline, were associated with the highest odds of EDSS worsening.

The retrospective analysis in patients aged 55 years and older underlines the importance of testing different patient populations.

Researchers found that sleep disorder-related symptoms were positively correlated with polysomnography indices.

Researchers found that, in an exploratory analysis of 150 patients, African American patients with MS were most likely to become disabled and lose employment.

Ishu Arpan, PhD, senior research associate at Oregon Health & Science University, discussed her team’s investigations into identifying patients with MS at risk of falling.

Researchers found that the percentage of telemedicine visits increased from 15% to 72.8% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers found that higher NIHSS scores on admission and a successful first-pass effect were predictors of reaching early neurological improvement.

Researchers also found that patients with progressive MS had longer disease duration before starting DMTs than those with relapsing MS.

Researchers used single-cell RNA sequencing on adult, pediatric, and infant surgical tissues to study oligodendrocyte types in order to better understand multiple sclerosis.

The FIREFISH clinical trial by PTC Therapeutics is 1 of several studies underway evaluating risdiplam in SMA.

The researchers found that interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels in plasma correlated with neurofilament light levels in cerebrospinal fluid.

Researchers found that 22 of 23 patients with elevated CSF NfL at baseline had normal levels at 2-year follow-up.