NEUROLOGY IN PRACTICE:
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Multiple sclerosis and CNS inflammatory disorders / edited by Lawrence M. Samkoff, Andrew D. Goodman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-67388-1 (pbk.)
I. Samkoff, Lawrence M., 1958– editor. II. Goodman, Andrew D., 1952– editor.
[DNLM: 1. Multiple Sclerosis. 2. Central Nervous System Diseases–immunology. 3. Neurogenic Inflammation–physiopathology. WL 360]
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Brenda Banwell MD
Department of Pediatrics (Neurology)
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allen C. Bowling MD
Colorado Neurological Institute
Englewood, CO, USA
Leigh E. Charvet PhD
Department of Neurology
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Jeffrey A. Cohen MD
Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research
Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
Anne H. Cross MD
Department of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, MO, USA
Mark Freedman MSc, MD, FAAN, FRCP(C)
Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
María I. Gaitán MD
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
and
Dr. Raúl Carrea Institute for Neurological Research
FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Barbara Giesser MD
Department of Neurology, MS Division
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andrew D. Goodman MD
Neuroimmunology Unit
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY, USA
Benjamin M. Greenberg MD, MHS
Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
and
Department of Pediatrics
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, TX, USA
Megan H. Hyland MD
Neuroimmunology Unit
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY, USA
Mohsen Khoshnam MD
Multiple Sclerosis Research Unit
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Benzi Kluzer MD
Department of Neurology
University of Colorado
Denver, CO, USA
George H. Kraft MD, MS
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
and Neurology
Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Lauren B. Krupp MD
Department of Neurology
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Eric Logigian MD
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, USA
Marcelo Matiello MD, MSc
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Nesanet S. Mitiku MD, PhD
Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology
and
Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Callene Momtazee MD
Department of Neurology, MS Division
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ellen M. Mowry MD, MCR
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Paul O’Connor MD
Division of Neurology
Institute of Medical Science
and
St Michael's Hospital
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Erica Patrick MD
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, USA
Laura Piccio MD, PhD
Department of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, MO, USA
Daniel S. Reich MD, PhD
National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
David J. Rintell EdD
Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
and
Partners Pediatric MS Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Jessica Robb MD
Neuroimmunology Unit
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester School
of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY, USA
Dalia Rotstein MD
Division of Neurology Institute of Medical Science
and
St Michael’s Hospital University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sabahattin Saip MD
Department of Neurology
Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine
Istanbul University
Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Lawrence M. Samkoff MD
Neuroimmunology Unit
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY, USA
Alexius E. G. Sandoval MD
Maine Rehabilitation Outpatient Center
Bangor, ME, USA
Thomas F. Scott MD
Department of Neurology
Drexel University College of Medicine
and
Allegheny MS Treatment Center
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Aksel Siva MD
Department of Neurology
Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine
Istanbul University
Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
Sonya U. Steele MSc
Department of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
Robert Thompson Stone MD
Department of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY, USA
Brian G. Weinshenker MD, FRCP(C)
Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
The genesis for this book series started with the proposition that, increasingly, physicians want direct, useful information to help them in clinical care. Textbooks, while comprehensive, are useful primarily as detailed reference works but pose challenges for uses at the point of care. By contrast, more outline-type references often leave out the “hows and whys”—pathophysiology, pharmacology—that form the basis of management decisions. Our goal for this series is to present books, covering most areas of neurology, that provide enough background information to allow the reader to feel comfortable, but not so much as to be overwhelming, and to associate that with practical advice from experts about care, combining the growing evidence base with best practices.
Our series will encompass various aspects of neurology, with topics and the specific content chosen to be accessible and useful.
Chapters cover critical information that will inform the reader of the disease processes and mechanisms as a prelude to treatment planning. Algorithms and guidelines are presented, when appropriate. “Tips and Tricks” boxes provide expert suggestions, while other boxes present cautions and warnings to avoid pitfalls. Finally, we provide “Science Revisited” sections that review the most important and relevant science background material, and references and further reading sections that guide the reader to additional material.
We welcome feedback. As additional volumes are added to the series, we hope to refine the content and format so that our readers will be best served.
Our thanks, appreciation, and respect go out to our editors and their contributors, who conceived and refined the content for each volume, assuring a high-quality, practical approach to neurological conditions and their treatment.
Our thanks also go to our mentors and students (past, present, and future), who have challenged and delighted us; to our book editors and their contributors, who were willing to take on additional work for an educational goal; and to our publisher, Martin Sugden, for his ideas and support, for wonderful discussions and commiseration over baseball and soccer teams that might not quite have lived up to expectations. We would like to dedicate the series to Marsha, Jake, and Dan, and to Janet, Laura, and David. And also to Steven R. Schwid, MD, our friend and colleague, whose ideas helped to shape this project and whose humor brightened our lives; but he could not complete this goal with us.
Rochester, NY, USA
The treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been revolutionized by the expanding armamentarium of disease-modifying agents that have been developed over the past two decades. These advances have resulted from the rapidly increasing understanding of the pathogenesis of MS. It is in this context that we have undertaken to compose a text to assist the practicing neurologists in training in the day-to-day care of patients with MS and MS-like inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS), with a review of the essential basic science and clinical principles needed to provide that care.
Chapters 1 and 2 provide an excellent overview of the basic science, epidemiology, and pathophysiology of MS, focusing on immunologic, genetic, and environmental factors. Chapters 3 and 4 present the diagnostic approach to MS, with emphasis on current criteria that incorporate clinical, laboratory, and MRI data to fulfill the classic definition of MS as a disorder disseminated in time and space. Chapter 5 reviews the rapidly changing therapeutic landscape for relapsing MS, which includes not only the original first-line injectable drugs (interferon beta and glatiramer acetate) but also monoclonal antibody infusions and oral agents. Chapter 6 then discusses treatment strategies for patients with progressive forms of MS, a population that is arguably underserved by available medications. MS can also be differentiated on the basis of sex and age of presentation, with disease-specific features in women, men, and children that are expertly reviewed in Chapters 7 and 8.
Despite the great advances in MS disease modifying therapy, they generally do not relieve already established symptoms. In fact, most people with MS are burdened with permanent and often fluctuating or worsening symptoms. Chapters 9–13 detail the management of the wide array of physical and neuropsychiatric MS-associated symptomatology, focusing on pharmacologic, alternative medicine, cognitive–behavioral, and rehabilitative approaches to patient care.
The diagnosis of MS implies that other diseases that mimic MS have been reliably excluded. The last section of the book, covered in Chapters 14–18, addresses other primary and secondary CNS inflammatory disorders that can be confused with MS, highlighting their differentiating features and treatment options.
Throughout the book, we have strived to include easy-to-read “Tips and Tricks” and “Science Revisited” boxes, and algorithms to emphasize important and practical information that can be useful in the clinic. We thank our chapter authors for their superb contributions to this effort. We are grateful for the assistance of the staff at Wiley Publishing, and for the valuable comments of series’ editors, Dr. Robert Gross and Dr. Jonathan Mink, in the production of this textbook. We deeply appreciate the enduring support of Sharon and Jordan, and of Terry, Adam, and Sarah, and we dedicate this book to them. It is our hope that this text will be a valuable addition to the bookshelves of clinicians caring for patients with MS and related illnesses.