Multiple+Sclerosis

=Reading=Gelb, pp250-253

=Goals=

5. Management: When to initate, what benefits, medications: interferons, glatiramer, mitoxantrone, natalizumab, steroids
acetate
 * beta-1b *Betaseron)
 * interferon beta-1a (Avonex)
 * glatiramer

6. Incidence, prevalence

 * Onset between 20, 50 years

7. Symptomatic treatment: baclofen, tizanidine, amantadine
amantadine: fatigue Lhermitte's sign: carbamazepine paroxysmal dystoni: carbamazepine, phenytoin, or gabapentin
 * tremors