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Jérôme de Seze1, Chiara Zecca2,3, Giovanni Castelnovo4
1Department of Neurology, CHU de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Background:
Recent studies support the need for early and intensive disease-modifying treatment (DMT) for patients with multiple sclerosis (PWMS). Abrupt DMT withdrawal may risk disease reactivation. Recent studies showed that MS disease activity was not rare after DMT withdrawal for PWMS aged >45/55 y. Immune reconstitution therapy (IRT) with cladribine tablets (CladT), may be an option for older PWMS who wish to stop DMT.
Objective:
We retrospectively analysed PWMS aged >45 y who initiated CladT in 6 MS centers in Europe.
Results:
One hundred and twenty nine PWMS (95 women/34 men, mean age 55.0 +/-7.5y initiated CladT; 83 (64.3%) previously received platform DMT, 35 (27.2%) previously received high efficacy DMT and 11 (8.5%) received CladT as a 1st DMT due to a late onset of MS or to a delayed therapy decision. Mean follow-up was 2.4 y (1-5) on CladT. Only three patient experienced 4 relapses. The first one had 2 relapses after switching from fingolimod with a 2-month interval between treatments. The 2 remaining were naïve patients that had a relapse between the 2 courses of CladT.
Conclusion:
Last/exit therapy with CladT seems to avoid MS disease reactivation in older PWMS and may be an interesting alternative solution to continue immunosuppression/immunomodulation.
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