NMOSD

A panel of experts in the treatment of patients with NMOSD discusses and offers insight into the vital aspects of diagnosis, disease management, and therapeutic strategy.

Compared with placebo, inebilizumab-treated participants showed attenuated biomarker elevation during attacks and reduced biomarker levels over time in the absence of adjudicated attacks.

The professor of neurology at the University of Virginia discussed the progress made in recognizing and diagnosing neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder through the discovery of specific monoclonal antibodies. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

The associate professor at the University of Colorado highlighted the limitations of standard care visits in collecting crucial data from pediatric multiple sclerosis centers. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology provided commentary on the possibility of preventing NMOSD, and the need to improve access to approved therapies and AQP4 testing. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The associate professor at the University of Colorado talked about a study involving pediatric patients with multiple sclerosis and related disorders, and the risk of COVID-19 infection among those on B-cell-depleting therapy. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

The director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology discussed findings from the phase 3 CHAMPION-NMOSD trial of ravulizumab in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Teri Schreiner, MD, associate professor at the University of Colorado, talked about the impact of B-cell-depleting therapy in pediatric patients with MS infected with COVID-19.

Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and ophthalmology at the University of Colorado Denver talked about inebilizumab for patients with NMOSD from the N-MOmentum trial.

The director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurology provided perspective on a phase 3 study of patients with NMOSD in which no relapses were recorded while on ravulizumab.

The associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School talked about the subgroup analysis on ravulizumab in NMOSD that was presented at the 2023 AAN Annual Meeting. [WATCH TIME: 5 minutes]

Inhibition of serum free complement 5 with ravulizumab was sustained throughout the treatment period according to a pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics analysis.

The treatment was superior in preventing on-trial relapse in both the monotherapy and immunosuppressive therapy groups compared with placebo in the CHAMPION-NMOSD trial.

Updated results to the phase 3 CHAMPION-NMOSD trial of ravulizumab showed significantly lower HAI score worsening following treatment.

NMOSD-related optic neuritis represented the strongest predictive risk factor of failure to attain visual recovery of at least 0.3 logMAR, with an odds ratio of 10.47.

An immunology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital provided perspective on the positive impacts a new diagnostic criterion for MOGAD brings to the clinical community. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The research fellow at the Neuroimmunology Clinic and Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, talked about his research of cell function in NMOSD to be presented at the upcoming AAN annual meeting. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]

Sheryl Lapidus, MA, senior director of patient advocacy at Horizon Therapeutics, talked about the findings from a recently conducted patient survey on NMOSD and the importance of advocacy in the field.

The research fellow at the Neuroimmunology Clinic and Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, talked about having safer and more specific treatments for NMOSD that are antigen-specific. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

The immunology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital discussed the current state of care for patients with MOGAD, and whether treatment decisions differ based on timing of attacks. [WATCH TIME: 7 minutes]

Michael Levy, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, spoke about the breakthrough of drugs for NMOSD and the challenges patients face to receive treatment.

More than 95% of the cohort of elderly patients showed functional improvement at 6 months after plasma exchange, including 60% who experienced moderate-to-marked improvement.

The neuroophtalmologist at Mayo Clinic detailed improvements in prescribing methods for NMOSD treatments and the conversations surrounding reversing neurodegeneration. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

The neuroophthalmologist at Mayo Clinic discussed the current understanding of optic neuritis in neuromyelitis optica and the ways clinicians are working to improve recovery. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

Michael Levy, MD, PhD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, talked about the differences between multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, the currently available treatments, and next steps in research.