Med Clin (Barc). 2014 Dec;143:44-7. doi: 10.1016/S0025-7753(15)30010-5.
Medicina clinica
[Article in Spanish] Óscar Fernández
PMID: 25732950 DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7753(15)30010-5
Multiple sclerosis occurs in genetically susceptible individuals, in whom an unknown environmental factor triggers an immune response, giving rise to a chronic and disabling autoimmune disease. Currently, significant progress is being made in our knowledge of the frequency and distribution of multiple sclerosis and its risk factors, genetics, pathology, pathogenesis, diagnostic and prognostic markers, and treatment. This has radically changed patients' and clinicians' expectations of multiple sclerosis and has raised hope that there will soon be a way to control the disease.
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Keywords: Epidemiology; Epidemiología; Esclerosis múltiple; Genetics; Genética; Multiple sclerosis; Pathogenesis; Patogenia; Prognosis; Pronóstico; Tratamiento; Treatment