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Understanding MS
 
Management of the Breakthrough Patient
Sponsored by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine
Release date: January 2006
Expiration date: January 2007
Estimated time to complete activity: 1 hour

This educational program is supported through an educational grant from Biogen IDEC and Elan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Differentiating perfect or near-perfect responders to platform therapy from those who are clearly non-responders poses no difficulty for clinicians. The lines between these categories and those who fall in between is an area of much difficulty, however. When to label a patient a suboptimal responder, a non-responder or one in transition to progressive disease and when to add or switch therapy is a difficult decision for most care providers, with no clear consensus even among MS specialists. Three MS specialists will give their opinions of the options for the less-than-optimal responder: when to consider a therapeutic change; whether and what to add as additional therapy, including various immunosuppressants as well as IV immunoglobulin; whether there is any role for switching among IFNs.

Windows Me / XP / 2000.
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256 MB RAM.
Microsoft Internet Explorer (6.0 or higher).
16-bit sound card and Windows Media Player (9.0 or greater).
Video Card capable of 16-bit color.
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or greater.


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