State of the Art and Future Challenges in Multiple Sclerosis Research and Medical Management: An Insight into the 5th International Porto Congress of Multiple Sclerosis

María José Sá; Ricardo Soares Dos Reis; Ayse Altintas; Elisabeth Gulowsen Celius; Claudia Chien; Giancarlo Comi; Francesc Graus; Jan Hillert; Jeremy Hobart; Gulfaraz Khan; Najib Kissani; Dawn Langdon; Maria Isabel Leite; Darin T Okuda; Jacqueline Palace; Regina María Papais-Alvarenga; Inês Mendes-Pinto; Fu-Dong Shi

doi:10.1007/s40120-020-00202-7

State of the Art and Future Challenges in Multiple Sclerosis Research and Medical Management: An Insight into the 5th International Porto Congress of Multiple Sclerosis

Neurol Ther. 2020 Dec;9(2):281-300. doi: 10.1007/s40120-020-00202-7. Epub 2020 Jul 14.

Authors

María José Sá^{1

2}, Ricardo Soares Dos Reis^{3

4}, Ayse Altintas⁵, Elisabeth Gulowsen Celius^{6

7}, Claudia Chien⁸, Giancarlo Comi⁹, Francesc Graus¹⁰, Jan Hillert¹¹, Jeremy Hobart^{12

13}, Gulfaraz Khan¹⁴, Najib Kissani^{15

16}, Dawn Langdon¹⁷, Maria Isabel Leite¹⁸, Darin T Okuda¹⁹, Jacqueline Palace¹⁸, Regina María Papais-Alvarenga²⁰, Inês Mendes-Pinto²¹, Fu-Dong Shi²²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Alameda Prof. Hernáni Monteiro, Porto, Portugal. mjsa@med.up.pt.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Rua Carlos da Maia, Porto, Portugal. mjsa@med.up.pt.
³ Department of Neurology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Alameda Prof. Hernáni Monteiro, Porto, Portugal. r.soaresdosreis@gmail.com.
⁴ Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. r.soaresdosreis@gmail.com.
⁵ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁶ Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway.
⁷ Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁸ NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁹ Department of Neurology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Neurology, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
¹³ Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
¹⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
¹⁵ Neurology Department, Marrakech University Hospital Mohammed VI, Marrakech, Morocco.
¹⁶ Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Marrakesh Medical School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.
¹⁷ Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK.
¹⁸ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹⁹ Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
²⁰ Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
²¹ International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal.
²² Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100070, China.

Abstract

The 5th International Porto Congress of Multiple Sclerosis took place between the 14th and 16th of February 2019 in Porto, Portugal. Its intensive programme covered a wide-range of themes-including many of the hot topics, challenges, pitfalls and yet unmet needs in the field of multiple sclerosis (MS)-led by a number of well-acknowledged world experts. This meeting review summarizes the talks that took place during the congress, which focussed on issues in MS as diverse as the development and challenges of progressive MS, epidemiology, differential diagnosis, medical management, molecular research and imaging tools.

Keywords: Congress review; Demyelinating diseases; Multiple sclerosis; Neurological diseases.

Publication types

Review