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Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. It is caused by an expansion of cytosine, adenine, guanine (CAG) repeats within the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which is located on chromosome 4. This pathological expansion of CAG repeats results in the production of a mutant huntingtin protein with an abnormally long polyglutamine […]

Aksel Siva, EAN 2018 – Treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis (Part 1)

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Published Online: Jun 29th 2018

Aksel Siva (EAN Programme Committee; Professor of Neurology, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Turkey) talks to us about various treatment considerations in multiple sclerosis (MS): induction, individualised therapy, optimal therapeutic window and when to switch therapies. Part 1 of 2.

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1. What are the limitations of using induction therapy in multiple sclerosis (MS)? (0:12)
2. Given the lack of biomarkers, what features of MS do you consider most important to establish an individual treatment regimen? (3:23)

View Part 2 here.

Speaker disclosure: Aksel Siva has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Filmed at the 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2018.

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