Guillaume Jouvenot, Guilhem Courbon, Mathilde Lefort, Fabien Rollot, Romain Casey, Emmanuelle Le Page, Laure Michel, Gilles Edan, Jérome de Seze, Laurent Kremer, Kevin Bigaut, Sandra Vukusic, Guillaume Mathey, Jonathan Ciron, Aurélie Ruet, Elisabeth Maillart, Pierre Labauge, Hélène Zephir, Caroline Papeix, Gilles Defer, Christine Lebrun-Frenay, Thibault Moreau, David Axel Laplaud, Eric Berger, Bruno Stankoff, Pierre Clavelou, Eric Thouvenot, Olivier Heinzlef, Jean Pelletier, Abdullatif Al-Khedr, Olivier Casez, Bertrand Bourre, Philippe Cabre, Abir Wahab, Laurent Magy, Jean-Philippe Camdessanché, Ines Doghri, Solène Moulin, Haifa Ben-Nasr, Céline Labeyrie, Karolina Hankiewicz, Jean-Philippe Neau, Corinne Pottier, Chantal Nifle, Nicolas Collongues, Anne Kerbrat
IMPORTANCE: A recent randomized clinical trial concluded that discontinuing medium-efficacy therapy might be a reasonable option for older patients with nonactive multiple sclerosis (MS), but there is a lack of data on discontinuing high-efficacy therapy (HET). In younger patients, the discontinuation of natalizumab and fingolimod is associated with a risk of rebound of disease activity. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether discontinuing HET in patients 50 years and older with nonactive MS is associated with an increased risk of relapse compared with continuing HET...
March 25, 2024: JAMA Neurology