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ArticleCurrent neuropharmacology2010

Clinical and pharmacological aspects of inflammatory demyelinating diseases in childhood: an update.

Alberto Spalice, Pasquale Parisi, Laura Papetti, Francesco Nicita, Fabiana Ursitti, Francesca Del Balzo, Enrico Properzi, Alberto Verrotti, Martino Ruggieri, Paola Iannetti

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Article in Current neuropharmacology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Alberto SpaliceChild Neurology, Paediatric Department, I Faculty of Medicine, "Sapienza University", c/o Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy. childneurology.sapienzaroma@live.it
Pasquale Parisi
Laura Papetti
Francesco Nicita
Fabiana Ursitti
Francesca Del Balzo
Enrico Properzi
Alberto Verrotti
Martino Ruggieri
Paola Iannetti

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory demyelinating diseases comprise a spectrum of disorders affecting the myelin of the central and peripheral nervous system. These diseases can usually be differentiated on the basis of clinical, radiological, laboratory and pathological findings. Recent studies have contributed to current awareness that inflammatory demyelinating diseases are not restricted to the adult age group, but are more common in pediatric age than previously believed. Some of pediatric inflammatory demyelinating diseases carry an unfavorable long-term prognosis but appropriate treatments can improve the outcome. The possibility of physical and cognitive disability resulting from these diseases, highlights the urgent need for therapeutic strategies for neurorehabilitation, neuroregeneration, and neurorepair. This review discusses characteristics of primary demyelinating diseases more frequently observed in childhood, focusing on epidemiology, clinical aspects and treatments.

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ADEMDemyelinating diseasedisease-modifying therapiesimmune-mediate polyradiculoneuropathiesimmunomodulatory therapy.pediatric multiple sclerosis

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PMID21119885
PMCPMC2923368

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