Pub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01006-1
Giancarlo Comi, Gloria Dalla Costa, Bruno Stankoff, Hans-Peter Hartung, Per Soelberg Sørensen, Patrick Vermersch, Letizia Leocani
Progressive multiple sclerosis poses a considerable challenge in the evaluation of disease progression and treatment response owing to its multifaceted pathophysiology. Traditional clinical measures such as the Expanded Disability Status Scale are limited in capturing the full scope of disease and treatment effects. Advanced imaging techniques, including MRI and PET scans, have emerged as valuable tools for the assessment of neurodegenerative processes, including the respective role of adaptive and innate immunity, detailed insights into brain and spinal cord atrophy, lesion dynamics and grey matter damage. The potential of cerebrospinal fluid and blood biomarkers is increasingly recognized, with neurofilament light chain levels being a notable indicator of neuro-axonal damage. Moreover, patient-reported outcomes are crucial for reflecting the subjective experience of disease progression and treatment efficacy, covering aspects such as fatigue, cognitive function and overall quality of life. The future incorporation of digital technologies and wearable devices in research and clinical practice promises to enhance our understanding of functional impairments and disease progression. This Review offers a comprehensive examination of these diverse evaluation tools, highlighting their combined use in accurately assessing disease progression and treatment efficacy in progressive multiple sclerosis, thereby guiding more effective therapeutic strategies. The approval of therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis has heightened the need for thorough assessment of disease progression and treatment response. This Review provides a comprehensive summary of available and emerging techniques, including advanced imaging, fluid biomarkers and patient-reported outcomes, highlighting their combined use for the accurate assessment of disease.
进展期多发性硬化症的病理生理学具有多面性，因此对疾病进展和治疗反应的评估提出了巨大挑战。传统的临床测量方法，如 "残疾状况扩展量表"（Expanded Disability Status Scale），在全面反映疾病和治疗效果方面存在局限性。先进的成像技术，包括核磁共振成像和正电子发射计算机断层扫描，已成为评估神经退行性病变过程的重要工具，包括适应性免疫和先天性免疫各自的作用、大脑和脊髓萎缩的详细情况、病变动态和灰质损伤。脑脊液和血液生物标志物的潜力日益得到认可，其中神经丝轻链水平是神经轴损伤的一个显著指标。此外，患者报告的结果对于反映疾病进展和治疗效果的主观感受至关重要，包括疲劳、认知功能和整体生活质量等方面。未来，数字技术和可穿戴设备在研究和临床实践中的应用有望增强我们对功能障碍和疾病进展的了解。本综述全面探讨了这些不同的评估工具，重点介绍了它们在准确评估进展期多发性硬化症的疾病进展和治疗效果方面的综合应用，从而为更有效的治疗策略提供指导。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01012-3
Marinos C. Dalakas
Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is the prototypical and most common autoimmune neuronal hyperexcitability disorder. It presents with stiffness in the limbs and axial muscles, stiff gait with uncontrolled falls, and episodic painful muscle spasms triggered by anxiety, task-specific phobias and startle responses, collectively leading to disability. Increased awareness of SPS among patients and physicians has created concerns about diagnosis, misdiagnosis and treatment. This Review addresses the evolving diagnostic challenges in SPS and overlapping glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibody spectrum disorders, highlighting the growing number of overdiagnoses and focusing on the progress made in our understanding of SPS pathophysiology, antibodies against GAD and other inhibitory synaptic antigens, and the fundamentals of neuronal hyperexcitability. It considers the role of impaired GABAergic or glycinergic inhibition in the cortex and at multiple levels in the neuraxis; the underlying autoimmunity and involvement of GAD antibodies; immunopathogenic mechanisms beyond antibodies, including environmental triggers; familial and immunogenetic susceptibility; and potential T cell cytotoxicity. Finally, the mechanistic rationale for target-specific therapeutic interventions is presented along with the available therapeutic approaches, including enhancers of GABA signalling drugs and immunotherapies. Stiff-person syndrome is an autoimmune neuronal hyperexcitability disorder that causes limb stiffness, painful spasms and falls, and increased awareness of the disease is creating diagnostic and management challenges. In this Review, Dalakas provides an overview of the current clinical and mechanistic understanding of stiff-person syndrome and related disorders and discusses current and emerging therapeutic interventions.
{"title":"Stiff-person syndrome and related disorders — diagnosis, mechanisms and therapies","authors":"Marinos C. Dalakas","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-01012-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-01012-3","url":null,"abstract":"Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is the prototypical and most common autoimmune neuronal hyperexcitability disorder. It presents with stiffness in the limbs and axial muscles, stiff gait with uncontrolled falls, and episodic painful muscle spasms triggered by anxiety, task-specific phobias and startle responses, collectively leading to disability. Increased awareness of SPS among patients and physicians has created concerns about diagnosis, misdiagnosis and treatment. This Review addresses the evolving diagnostic challenges in SPS and overlapping glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) antibody spectrum disorders, highlighting the growing number of overdiagnoses and focusing on the progress made in our understanding of SPS pathophysiology, antibodies against GAD and other inhibitory synaptic antigens, and the fundamentals of neuronal hyperexcitability. It considers the role of impaired GABAergic or glycinergic inhibition in the cortex and at multiple levels in the neuraxis; the underlying autoimmunity and involvement of GAD antibodies; immunopathogenic mechanisms beyond antibodies, including environmental triggers; familial and immunogenetic susceptibility; and potential T cell cytotoxicity. Finally, the mechanistic rationale for target-specific therapeutic interventions is presented along with the available therapeutic approaches, including enhancers of GABA signalling drugs and immunotherapies. Stiff-person syndrome is an autoimmune neuronal hyperexcitability disorder that causes limb stiffness, painful spasms and falls, and increased awareness of the disease is creating diagnostic and management challenges. In this Review, Dalakas provides an overview of the current clinical and mechanistic understanding of stiff-person syndrome and related disorders and discusses current and emerging therapeutic interventions.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":28.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01005-2
Ruth Geraldes, Georgina Arrambide, Brenda Banwell, Àlex Rovira, Rosa Cortese, Hans Lassmann, Silvia Messina, Mara Assunta Rocca, Patrick Waters, Declan Chard, Claudio Gasperini, Yael Hacohen, Romina Mariano, Friedemann Paul, Gabriele C. DeLuca, Christian Enzinger, Ludwig Kappos, M. Isabel Leite, Jaume Sastre-Garriga, Tarek Yousry, Olga Ciccarelli, Massimo Filippi, Frederik Barkhof, Jacqueline Palace, MAGNIMS Study Group
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease that is challenging to differentiate from multiple sclerosis (MS), as the clinical phenotypes overlap, and people with MOGAD can fulfil the current MRI-based diagnostic criteria for MS. In addition, the MOG antibody assays that are an essential component of MOGAD diagnosis are not standardized. Accurate diagnosis of MOGAD is crucial because the treatments and long-term prognosis differ from those for MS. This Expert Recommendation summarizes the outcomes from a Magnetic Resonance Imaging in MS workshop held in Oxford, UK in May 2022, in which MS and MOGAD experts reflected on the pathology and clinical features of these disorders, the contributions of MRI to their diagnosis and the clinical use of the MOG antibody assay. We also critically reviewed the literature to assess the validity of distinctive imaging features in the current MS and MOGAD criteria. We conclude that dedicated orbital and spinal cord imaging (with axial slices) can inform MOGAD diagnosis and also illuminate differential diagnoses. We provide practical guidance to neurologists and neuroradiologists on how to navigate the current MOGAD and MS criteria. We suggest a strategy that includes useful imaging discriminators on standard clinical MRI and discuss imaging features detected by non-conventional MRI sequences that demonstrate promise in differentiating these two disorders. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease that is distinct from multiple sclerosis but shares some of its characteristics. This Expert Recommendation, based on a Magnetic Resonance Imaging in MS workshop, proposes a diagnostic algorithm for the differential diagnosis of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease and multiple sclerosis, using serological, imaging and clinical features.
{"title":"The influence of MOGAD on diagnosis of multiple sclerosis using MRI","authors":"Ruth Geraldes, Georgina Arrambide, Brenda Banwell, Àlex Rovira, Rosa Cortese, Hans Lassmann, Silvia Messina, Mara Assunta Rocca, Patrick Waters, Declan Chard, Claudio Gasperini, Yael Hacohen, Romina Mariano, Friedemann Paul, Gabriele C. DeLuca, Christian Enzinger, Ludwig Kappos, M. Isabel Leite, Jaume Sastre-Garriga, Tarek Yousry, Olga Ciccarelli, Massimo Filippi, Frederik Barkhof, Jacqueline Palace, MAGNIMS Study Group","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-01005-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-01005-2","url":null,"abstract":"Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease that is challenging to differentiate from multiple sclerosis (MS), as the clinical phenotypes overlap, and people with MOGAD can fulfil the current MRI-based diagnostic criteria for MS. In addition, the MOG antibody assays that are an essential component of MOGAD diagnosis are not standardized. Accurate diagnosis of MOGAD is crucial because the treatments and long-term prognosis differ from those for MS. This Expert Recommendation summarizes the outcomes from a Magnetic Resonance Imaging in MS workshop held in Oxford, UK in May 2022, in which MS and MOGAD experts reflected on the pathology and clinical features of these disorders, the contributions of MRI to their diagnosis and the clinical use of the MOG antibody assay. We also critically reviewed the literature to assess the validity of distinctive imaging features in the current MS and MOGAD criteria. We conclude that dedicated orbital and spinal cord imaging (with axial slices) can inform MOGAD diagnosis and also illuminate differential diagnoses. We provide practical guidance to neurologists and neuroradiologists on how to navigate the current MOGAD and MS criteria. We suggest a strategy that includes useful imaging discriminators on standard clinical MRI and discuss imaging features detected by non-conventional MRI sequences that demonstrate promise in differentiating these two disorders. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease is an immune-mediated demyelinating disease that is distinct from multiple sclerosis but shares some of its characteristics. This Expert Recommendation, based on a Magnetic Resonance Imaging in MS workshop, proposes a diagnostic algorithm for the differential diagnosis of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease and multiple sclerosis, using serological, imaging and clinical features.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":28.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01002-5
Patricia Pozo-Rosich, Alicia Alpuente, Stephen D. Silberstein, Rami Burstein
OnabotulinumtoxinA (BTX-A) was first linked to beneficial effects in migraine 25 years ago and was approved by the FDA for preventive treatment of chronic migraine in 2010. The treatment has since had a major impact on the well-being of people with chronic migraine. The clinical development programme for BTX-A and research since its approval have provided insights into the neuromodulatory sensory effect of BTX-A, how it can control chronic migraine despite its peripheral action, and the underlying biology of migraine as a disease. In this Review, we consider the impact that BTX-A has had on the management of chronic migraine and on the research field. We discuss the insights provided by clinical research, encompassing the clinical trials and subsequent real-world evidence, and the mechanistic insights provided by preclinical and translational research. We also provide an overview of future directions of research in the field BTX-A in migraine and the clinical translation of this research. OnabotulinumtoxinA was first linked to beneficial effects in migraine 25 years ago and has since become a widely used treatment for chronic migraine. In this Review, Pozo-Rosich and colleagues consider the impact that onabotulinumtoxinA has had on the management of chronic migraine and on the research field.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01013-2
Ian Fyfe
Antisense oligonucleotide treatment has therapeutic potential in a severe form of Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, according to a new study.
一项新的研究表明，反义寡核苷酸疗法对一种严重的夏科-玛丽-牙病具有治疗潜力。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01001-6
Meabh O’Hare, Amanda C. Guidon
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer therapy and are increasingly used to treat a wide range of oncological conditions, with dramatic benefits for many patients. Unfortunately, the resulting increase in T cell effector function often results in immune-related adverse events (irAEs), which can involve any organ system, including the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). Neurological irAEs involve the PNS in two-thirds of affected patients. Muscle involvement (immune-related myopathy) is the most common PNS irAE and can be associated with neuromuscular junction involvement. Immune-related peripheral neuropathy most commonly takes the form of polyradiculoneuropathy or cranial neuropathies. Immune-related myopathy (with or without neuromuscular junction involvement) often occurs along with immune-related myocarditis, and this overlap syndrome is associated with substantially increased mortality. This Review focuses on PNS adverse events associated with immune checkpoint inhibition. Underlying pathophysiological mechanisms are discussed, including antigen homology between self and tumour, epitope spreading and activation of pre-existing autoreactive T cells. An overview of current approaches to clinical management is provided, including cytokine-directed therapies that aim to decouple anticancer immunity from autoimmunity and emerging treatments for patients with severe (life-threatening) presentations. Some patients who are treated with checkpoint inhibitors experience peripheral nervous system (PNS) immune-related adverse events (irAEs). O’Hare and Guidon describe the spectrum of PNS irAE phenotypes, discuss their underlying mechanisms and outline a consensus-based, pathophysiology-driven approach to their clinical management.
免疫检查点抑制剂彻底改变了癌症疗法，越来越多地用于治疗各种肿瘤疾病，给许多患者带来了巨大的益处。不幸的是，T细胞效应器功能的增强往往会导致免疫相关不良事件（irAEs），这些不良事件可能涉及任何器官系统，包括中枢神经系统（CNS）和外周神经系统（PNS）。三分之二的受影响患者的神经系统不良事件涉及 PNS。肌肉受累（免疫相关肌病）是最常见的 PNS irAE，可能与神经肌肉接头受累有关。免疫相关周围神经病变最常见的形式是多发性神经元病变或颅内神经病变。免疫相关性肌病（伴有或不伴有神经肌肉接头受累）通常与免疫相关性心肌炎同时发生，这种重叠综合征与死亡率大幅上升有关。本综述侧重于与免疫检查点抑制相关的 PNS 不良事件。其中讨论了潜在的病理生理学机制，包括自身与肿瘤之间的抗原同源性、表位扩散和原有自反应 T 细胞的激活。综述了目前的临床治疗方法，包括旨在使抗癌免疫与自身免疫脱钩的细胞因子导向疗法，以及针对重症（危及生命）患者的新兴疗法。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01004-3
Nicolas Villain, Vincent Planche
In recent years, we have seen a shift towards defining sporadic neurodegenerative diseases as a biological continuum. Here, we discuss the risks associated with this shift, emphasize the importance of maintaining a strong connection between disease definitions and subsequent clinical outcomes, and suggest clinicobiological frameworks to disentangle multiple discrete nosological entities.
{"title":"Disentangling clinical and biological trajectories of neurodegenerative diseases","authors":"Nicolas Villain, Vincent Planche","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-01004-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-024-01004-3","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, we have seen a shift towards defining sporadic neurodegenerative diseases as a biological continuum. Here, we discuss the risks associated with this shift, emphasize the importance of maintaining a strong connection between disease definitions and subsequent clinical outcomes, and suggest clinicobiological frameworks to disentangle multiple discrete nosological entities.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141904615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01000-7
Lahiru Handunnetthi, Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Lance Turtle, David P. J. Hunt
Vaccines protect against many infectious diseases, including some that can directly or indirectly cause nervous system damage. Serious neurological consequences of immunization are typically extremely rare, although they have the potential to jeopardize vaccination programmes, as demonstrated most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neurologists have an important role in identifying safety signals at population and individual patient levels, as well as providing advice on the benefit–risk profile of vaccination in cohorts of patients with diverse neurological conditions. This article reviews the links between vaccination and neurological disease and considers how emerging signals can be evaluated and their mechanistic basis identified. We review examples of neurotropic infections with live attenuated vaccines, as well as neuroimmunological and neurovascular sequelae of other types of vaccines. We emphasize that such risks are typically dwarfed by neurological complications associated with natural infection and discuss how the risks can be further mitigated. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to rapidly identify and minimize neurological risks of vaccination, and we review the structures that need to be developed to protect public health against these risks in the future. Vaccination has transformed the global fight against infectious diseases and has a highly favourable benefit–risk profile in most people, although adverse events, including neurological complications, can occasionally occur. This article reviews the links between vaccination and neurological disease and considers the role of neurologists in identifying safety signals and managing risk.
{"title":"Identifying and reducing risks of neurological complications associated with vaccination","authors":"Lahiru Handunnetthi, Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Lance Turtle, David P. J. Hunt","doi":"10.1038/s41582-024-01000-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41582-024-01000-7","url":null,"abstract":"Vaccines protect against many infectious diseases, including some that can directly or indirectly cause nervous system damage. Serious neurological consequences of immunization are typically extremely rare, although they have the potential to jeopardize vaccination programmes, as demonstrated most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic. Neurologists have an important role in identifying safety signals at population and individual patient levels, as well as providing advice on the benefit–risk profile of vaccination in cohorts of patients with diverse neurological conditions. This article reviews the links between vaccination and neurological disease and considers how emerging signals can be evaluated and their mechanistic basis identified. We review examples of neurotropic infections with live attenuated vaccines, as well as neuroimmunological and neurovascular sequelae of other types of vaccines. We emphasize that such risks are typically dwarfed by neurological complications associated with natural infection and discuss how the risks can be further mitigated. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to rapidly identify and minimize neurological risks of vaccination, and we review the structures that need to be developed to protect public health against these risks in the future. Vaccination has transformed the global fight against infectious diseases and has a highly favourable benefit–risk profile in most people, although adverse events, including neurological complications, can occasionally occur. This article reviews the links between vaccination and neurological disease and considers the role of neurologists in identifying safety signals and managing risk.","PeriodicalId":19085,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Neurology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":28.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1038/s41582-024-01007-0
Lisa Kiani
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