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Bridging, switching or drug holidays – how to treat a patient who stops natalizumab?

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Title
Bridging, switching or drug holidays – how to treat a patient who stops natalizumab?
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Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, October 2013
DOI 10.2147/tcrm.s41552
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Joachim Havla, Ingo Kleiter, Tania Kümpfel

Abstract

Natalizumab (NAT) was the first monoclonal antibody to be approved for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). While pivotal and postmarketing studies have showed considerable and sustained efficacy of NAT in RRMS, the increasing incidence of therapy-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), a brain infection caused by the John Cunningham virus (JCV), is a risk associated with long-term therapy. The risk for therapy-associated PML is highest in so-called "triple risk" patients. Therefore, long-term NAT-treated, immunosuppressive-pretreated, and JCV antibody-positive patients often discontinue NAT therapy. However, until now, it is not known which treatment strategy should be followed after NAT cessation. Since disease activity returns to pretreatment levels, or even above, within 4-7 months from the last infusion of NAT, patients who stop NAT are at considerable risk of relapse and worsening of multiple sclerosis (MS)-related disability. Several strategies have been applied to prevent the recurrence of disease activity after discontinuation of NAT. Of these, bridging with intravenous methylprednisolone, and switching to glatiramer acetate or interferon beta (IFN-beta) do not seem to be effective enough. More promising results have been obtained in retrospective studies and case series with fingolimod (FTY), an alternative escalation therapy for RRMS, although some patients have showed a severe disease rebound after starting FTY treatment. The time interval between the discontinuation of NAT and the start of FTY might affect the recurrence of disease activity. Long-term data about the efficacy and safety of FTY treatment after cessation of NAT are urgently needed and should be further investigated. Prospective studies are warranted, to optimize treatment strategies for RRMS patients who discontinue NAT, especially because new therapies will be available in the very near future.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 4 5%
Spain 2 3%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 67 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 20%
Researcher 10 14%
Other 9 12%
Student > Master 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 14 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 45%
Neuroscience 8 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 5%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 17 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2013.
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#16,721,717
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#810
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#133,236
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Outputs of similar age from Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
#6
of 14 outputs
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