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Can we predict flu-like symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with interferon-beta?
1Unitat de Neuroimmunologia Clínica, Servei de Neurologia, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. xmontal@hg.vhebron.es
Journal of Neurology
|June 3, 2000
Abstract:
Interferon-beta1b treatment in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis can frequently induce systemic side effects such as flu-like symptoms with fever. In vitro stimulation of peripheral blood leukocytes with interferon-beta1b before the beginning of therapy shows that patients who develop fever generally have increased levels of interleukin-6.