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NEUROLOGY
Volume 97, Issue 19, Pages E1906-E1913Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012782
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- Novartis [CFTY720DUS37T]
- NIH [R01NS49577-7]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF Project) [J3508-B24]
- Mayo Clinic Center for MS and Autoimmune Neurology
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The study compared clinical characteristics across immunopathologic subtypes in patients with multiple sclerosis. It found that while all three immunopatterns can be detected in active lesions, pattern III is associated with a more fulminant initial attack. Biopsied patients showed similar long-term outcomes regardless of their immunopatterns.
Background and Objectives The goal of this work was to compare clinical characteristics across immunopathologic subtypes of patients with multiple sclerosis. Methods Immunopathologic subtyping was performed on specimens from 547 patients with biopsy- or autopsy-confirmed CNS demyelination. Results The frequency of immunopathologic subtypes was 23% for pattern I, 56% for pattern II, and 22% for pattern III. Immunopatterns were similar in terms of age at autopsy/biopsy (median age 41 years, range 4-83 years, p = 0.16) and proportion female (54%, p = 0.71). Median follow-up after symptom onset was 2.3 years (range 0-38 years). In addition to being overrepresented among autopsy cases (45% vs 19% in biopsy cohort, p < 0.001), index attack-related disability was higher in pattern III vs II (median Expanded Disability Status Scale score 4 vs 3, p = 0.02). Monophasic clinical course was more common in patients with pattern III than pattern I or II (59% vs 33% vs 32%, p < 0.001). Similarly, patients with pattern III pathology were likely to have progressive disease compared to patients with patterns I or II when followed up for >= 5 years (24% overall, p = 0.49), with no differences in long-term survival, despite a more fulminant attack presentation. Conclusion All 3 immunopatterns can be detected in active lesions, although they are found less frequently later into the disease due to the lower number of active lesions. Pattern III is associated with a more fulminant initial attack than either pattern I or II. Biopsied patients appear to have similar long-term outcomes regardless of their immunopatterns. Progressive disease is less associated with the initial immunopattern and suggests convergence into a final common pathway related to the chronically denuded axon.
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