Dr Anthony Béhin (University Hospitals Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France) discusses highlights from the annual European Academy of Neurology (EAN), July 1–4, 2023, in the field of myasthenia gravis. Disclosures: Anthony Béhin is a consultant for Alexion, Argenx, UCB, Sanofi and Ultragenyx pharmaceutical. He has received grant/research support from the Association Institut de Myologie and is on the […]

Dr Anthony Béhin (University Hospitals Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France) discusses his abstract on the safety profile of anti-FcRn drugs, in particular efgartigimod, and anti-complement drugs in the treatment of IgG-mediated autoimmune diseases. The abstract ‘EPR-128 Safety Profile Overview of Efgartigimod Clinical Trials in Participants With Diverse IgG-Mediated Autoimmune Diseases’ was presented at the annual European Academy […]

Prof Elon Eisenberg (Tachnion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) summarizes our current knowledge on using cannabis in pain medicine, and the unmet needs in this field. He then provides some practical advice on using cannabis in clinical practice and offers his perspective on the next steps and what further studies are required. The […]

Dr Luca Leonardi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) summarizes the take-home messages from his study assessing skin biopsy as a marker of disease onset and severity in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy (ATTRv-PN), a treatable disease. The abstract ‘EJoN: Skin amyloid deposits and nerve fiber loss as markers of neuropathy onset and progression in hereditary […]

touchNEUROLOGY editorial board member Prof. Angelo Antonini (Padua University Hospital, Italy) provides an overview of his top three most important updates and hot topics from the annual European Academy of Neurology (EAN), July 1–4, 2023, in the field of Parkinson’s disease. He particularly focusses on new insights in early detection of the disease before motor symptoms […]

In this touchNEUROLOGY interview, editorial board member Prof Peter Goadsby (King’s college Hospital, London) highlights two presentations from the annual European Academy of Neurology (EAN), July 1–4, 2023, in the field of migraine; the first by Klein et al. looking at a new potential biomarker of visual snow syndrome, and the second a presentation that he […]

In this touchNEUROLOGY interview, editorial board member Prof Peter Goadsby (King’s college Hospital, London) provides an overview of his top three most important clinical trial data and hot topics presented at the annual European Academy of Neurology (EAN), July 1–4, 2023, in the field of headache disorders. He highlights two important presentations using calcitonin gene-related peptide […]

Oral diroximel fumarate (DRF) has similar efficacy/safety to dimethyl fumarate in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), but improved GI tolerability. In the from EVOLVE-MS-1 study, safety/efficacy of DRF was assessed in patients with RRMS aged >=55 years. Dr Simon Faissner (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) summarizes the take-home messages from his presentation of the results of the study. The abstract ‘EPO-160 […]

Muscle-specific kinase autoantibody-positive (MuSK-Ab+) generalised myasthenia gravis (gMG) is usually more clinically severe than acetylcholine receptor autoantibody-positive (AChR-Ab+) gMG. The Phase 3 MycarinG study analysed rozanolixizumab in patients with AChR-Ab+ or MuSKAb+ gMG. Dr Sabrina Sacconi (Côte d’Azur University, Nice, France) summarizes the take-home messages from her presentation of the results of the study. The […]