Thyroid disorders in alemtuzumab-treated multiple sclerosis patients: a Belgian consensus on diagnosis and management

This paper deals with thyroid disease that can occur after treatment with alemtuzumab (humanized monoclonal anti-CD52) for relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). The 5-year incidence of thyroid adverse events in phase 3 clinical trials is up to 40.7%. In most cases, the thyroid dysfunction is mild and easily manageable and only few serious thyroid adverse events have been reported. The need for patient education on the risk of thyroid dysfunction, as well as regular clinical and biochemical thyroid function screening is well described. However, practical clinical guidance in case of abno... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Decallonne, Brigitte
Bartholomé, Emmanuel
Delvaux, Valérie
D’haeseleer, Miguel
El Sankari, Souraya
Seeldrayers, Pierrette
Van Wijmeersch, Bart
Daumerie, Ch
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Schlagwörter: Neurologie / Alemtuzumab / Algorithm / Autoimmune thyroid disease / Immune reconstitution / Management / Multiple sclerosis
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28877800
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/272565

This paper deals with thyroid disease that can occur after treatment with alemtuzumab (humanized monoclonal anti-CD52) for relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (MS). The 5-year incidence of thyroid adverse events in phase 3 clinical trials is up to 40.7%. In most cases, the thyroid dysfunction is mild and easily manageable and only few serious thyroid adverse events have been reported. The need for patient education on the risk of thyroid dysfunction, as well as regular clinical and biochemical thyroid function screening is well described. However, practical clinical guidance in case of abnormal thyroid-related findings prior to or after alemtuzumab treatment is currently lacking. Therefore, a Belgian taskforce consisting of MS and thyroid experts was created in 2016, with the objective of issuing a clinical thyroid management algorithm based on available scientific evidence and personal experience with regard to alemtuzumab treatment-related thyroid adverse events. ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published