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  • Five Questions Answered: A Review of aHSCT for MS

    Neurotherapeutics
    pp 1–6

    Five Questions Answered: A Review of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

    Authors


    Harold L. Atkins, Mark S. Freedman

    First Online: 18 August 2017

    Abstract

    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be an autoimmune disease targeting the central nervous system leading to demyelination, and axonal and neuronal damage, resulting in progressive disability. More intensive therapies such as immunodepletion with hematopoietic stem-cell rescue are being used at a time prior to patients becoming irreversibly disabled.

    Over the last 15 years, there has been a shift away from using autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplants (aHSCT) to treat patients with progressive MS, towards treating those with active inflammation and relapses. There is an increasing body of evidence that aHSCT improves all measured MS outcomes, including burden of disease on MRI, clinical relapses, accumulation of disability, and quality of life of patients with active MS not controlled with standard therapy. Importantly, the progression-free survival curves of these patients plateau after the first few years demonstrating the impact that aHSCT has in changing the natural history of MS, potentially freeing patients from the relentless accumulation of disability. Concurrently there has been a reduction in procedure-related mortality. The results of randomized trials will likely spur further development of this field.
    Dave Bexfield
    ActiveMSers

  • #2
    The full article is available here. Good read by the leading HSCT experts in Canada....

    https://link.springer.com/article/10...311-017-0564-5
    Dave Bexfield
    ActiveMSers

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