Multiple Sclerosis Management Consensus Statement

The Society recognizes that the factors that enter into a decision to treat are complex and best analyzed by the individual patient’s neurologist.

Initiation of treatment with an interferon beta medication or glatiramer acetate should be considered as soon as possible following a definite diagnosis of MS with active, relapsing disease, and may also be considered for selected patients with a first attack who are at high risk of MS.*

Natalizumab is generally recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients who have had an inadequate response to, or are unable to tolerate, other multiple sclerosis therapies.

Treatment with mitoxantrone may be considered for selected relapsing patients with worsening disease or patients with secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis who are worsening, whether or not relapses are occurring.

Click here to read more about an expert opinion paper: MS Management Consensus Statement (National MS Society)