Conversations on MS with Dr. Enrique Alvarez, recorded live in Pueblo, Colorado, on April 2, 2025.
TOPICS ADDRESSED IN THIS SESSION:
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- 2:45 Progression Independent of Relapse (PIRA) / Smoldering MS
- 15:30 Cognition
- 19:05 Update on BTK inhibitors (tolebrutinib)
- 22:38 Paramagnetic Rim Lesions (PRLs)
- 24:50 BTKi update continued
- 26:15 New Ocrevus data regarding body and dose size
- 28:15 Updated Diagnostic Criteria / Radiologically Isolated Syndrome (RIS)
- 30:25 Measles Vaccine and MS
- 36:03 MS as you age / Discontinuing treatment / De-escalation
- 42:08 Fatigue
- 49:19 Risk of PML with MS medications
- 55:08 Ampyra (dalfampridine)
- 59:30 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- 1:01:23 Vitamin D
- 1:07:38 Best diet for MS
- 1:10:03 Lifestyle choices to improve MS
- 1:12:15 Weight loss and MS, GLP-1s
- 1:14:47 Testing biomarkers, personalized medicine
- 1:21:22 High ferritin levels
- 1:21:53 Pseudo relapses vs progression vs relapse
- 1:23:48 The role of a neuroimmunologist
- 1:25:13 Back pain / sports creams
- 1:28:40 Sleep medications