| Identifier |
20190319_nanos_posters_213 |
| Title |
Rituximab May Confer Protective Effect on Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Multiple Sclerosis |
| Creator |
Deepak Soneji; Shreya Nayak; Islam Zaydan; Gabrielle Bonhomme; Ellen Mitchell |
| Affiliation |
(DS) (SN) (IZ) (GB) (EM) University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Subject |
Demeylinating Disease; Diagnostic Tests (ERG, VER, OCT, HRT, mfERG, etc); Eyelid & Adnexal Disease; Neuro-Ophth & Systyemic Disease (eg. MS, MG, Thyroid) |
| Description |
Painful visual loss due to optic neuritis is a common presentation for an acute flare of multiple sclerosis (MS). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has emerged as a tool to evaluate thinning of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in patients with demyelinating conditions and may be useful in assessing subclinical progression of disease. Disease modifying therapies such as natalizumab have been implicated in stabilizing RNFL loss in MS (Talmage et al. 2017), but no such study has been done with Rituximab, which is a monoclonal Anti-CD20 antibody shown to be effective in treating MS (Alcala et al., 2018). |
| Date |
2019-03 |
| Language |
eng |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Type |
Text |
| Source |
2019 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting |
| Relation is Part of |
NAM 2019: Poster Session II: Scientific Advancements in Neuro-Ophthalmology |
| Collection |
Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NANOS Annual Meeting Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/nanos-annual-meeting-collection/ |
| Publisher |
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society |
| Holding Institution |
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah |
| Rights Management |
Copyright 2019. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6wd8j8z |
| Setname |
ehsl_novel_nam |
| ID |
1432871 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6wd8j8z |
