Xanit Hospital International is the latest advances in multiple sclerosis in a day.
Benalmádena, Málaga, December of 2011- the neuroscience area, Xanit Hospital International has organized a meeting of update in multiple sclerosis (MS), in which participated more than 20 professionals among neuroscientists, neurophysiologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, speech therapists and specialists in occupational therapy from the province of Málaga.
The aim of this meeting was to update the existing information about multiple sclerosis, a disease of inflammatory origin that affects the myelin (the substance responsible for facilitating the nerve impulse in the nervous system). This disorder usually affect a mainly young population, disrupts the central nervous system at multiple levels and in different times.
According to Dr. Victor Campos, Director of the area of Neurosciences of Xanit Hospital international, in Spain prevalence figures are around 50/100,000 inhabitants, a figure slightly lower with respect to the countries of Northern Europe (United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries 100/100,000 inhabitants) ” and adds that Xanit, through its area of neuroscience, has been considered essential to update the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques given the large number of people belonging to these nationalities who live or visit Benalmádena and the Costa del Sol and consult our neurology service ”.
These meetings were chaired by Dr. VÃctor Campos, and included the participation of Andalusian specialists in multiple sclerosis. The meeting was coordinated by Dr. Fernando Sanchez, Chief of section of Neurology and head of unit of the Hospital multiple sclerosis Reina Sofia ” of Córdoba; and reviewed the aspects included in the programme the Dres. Francisco Padilla, specialist in neurology hospital Virgen de la Victoria ” of Málaga; Carmen Arnal, specialist in neurology hospital Virgen de las Nieves ” of Granada; and Eduardo Agüero, specialist in neurology Hospital EM unit Reina Sofia ” of Córdoba.
Topics addressed include the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, deepening on newly established criteria; the role of the study of cerebrospinal fluid; current treatment; different strategies to use it properly, and therapeutic developments. This aspect is most innovative and interesting paragraph given the development of new drugs capable of modifying the immune response of the human brain (or immunomodulators ”) who will be admitted for use in the very near future.
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