Pietro Iaffaldano, Emilio Portaccio, Giuseppe Lucisano, Marta Simone, Alessia Manni, Tommaso Guerra, Damiano Paolicelli, Matteo Betti, Ermelinda De Meo, Luisa Pastò, Lorenzo Razzolini, Maria A Rocca, Laura Ferrè, Vincenzo Brescia Morra, Francesco Patti, Mauro Zaffaroni, Claudio Gasperini, Giovanna De Luca, Diana Ferraro, Franco Granella, Carlo Pozzilli, Silvia Romano, Paolo Gallo, Roberto Bergamaschi, Maria Gabriella Coniglio, Giacomo Lus, Marika Vianello, Paola Banfi, Alessandra Lugaresi, Rocco Totaro, Daniele Spitaleri, Eleonora Cocco, Franco Di Palma, Davide Maimone, Paola Valentino, Valentina Torri Clerici, Alessandra Protti, Giorgia Teresa Maniscalco, Giuseppe Salemi, Ilaria Pesci, Umberto Aguglia, Vito Lepore, Massimo Filippi, Maria Trojano, Maria Pia Amato
IMPORTANCE: Although up to 20% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience onset before 18 years of age, it has been suggested that people with pediatric-onset MS (POMS) are protected against disability because of greater capacity for repair. OBJECTIVE: To assess the incidence of and factors associated with progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA) and relapse-associated worsening (RAW) in POMS compared with typical adult-onset MS (AOMS) and late-onset MS (LOMS)...
November 27, 2023: JAMA Neurology