{"id":1096,"date":"2025-12-28T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/emergency-paging-dr-k\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:00:53","slug":"emergency-paging-dr-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/emergency-paging-dr-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency-Paging Dr.K"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmultiple-sclerosis-research.org%2F2025%2F12%2Femergency-paging-dr-k%2F&#038;via=the_MSBlog\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>OK its not Dr Beat its ProfK.<\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;argue that despite significant advances in MS immunotherapy, and framework ideas to prevent the disease altogether, MS clinicians, let alone the general neurology community, regularly fails to make effective use of secondary preventive strategies. Clinical practice remains conservative. Many patients start treatment months\u2014or even years\u2014after diagnosis, guided by the long-standing assumption that MS is a chronic disease for which time is not a critical factor&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acute stroke is rightly treated as a neurological emergency, and \u201ctime is brain\u201d has become the guiding principle of stroke management. Should a similar principle apply in MS?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clinicians rarely hesitate to administer corticosteroids for acute MS relapses. However, evidence suggests it is time to adopt an urgent AND targeted treatment approach right from disease onset, managing MS as an acute condition. This represents a step change: thinking of every new MS lesion as a \u201cstroke of demyelination\u201d&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If time truly matters, delaying effective intervention can no longer be acceptable. \u201cTreating MS early\u201d should enter a new level &#8211; soon we will find out whether even days count&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>El Mouhajir H, Alrashed A, Mohamed B, Schmierer K. Is newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis a medical emergency? Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2025 Dec 19;107:106939. doi: 10.1016\/j.msard.2025.106939. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41455295.<\/p>\n<p>ProfK has got Attack MS back on track and is recruiting&#8230;best of luck&#8230;I know the trial is a success as it can be done in the NHS<\/p>\n<p>COI Multiple<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiple-sclerosis-research.org\/2025\/12\/emergency-paging-dr-k\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=emergency-paging-dr-k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple-sclerosis-research.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet OK its not Dr Beat its ProfK. They &#8220;argue that despite significant advances in MS immunotherapy, and framework ideas to prevent the disease altogether, MS clinicians, let alone the general neurology community, regularly fails to make effective use of secondary preventive strategies. Clinical practice remains conservative. Many patients start treatment months\u2014or even years\u2014after diagnosis,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}