Long-term effects of fingolimod in multiple sclerosis
The randomized FREEDOMS extension trial
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- Received June 15, 2014
- Accepted in final form December 19, 2014
- First Published March 20, 2015.
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Author Disclosures
- Ludwig Kappos, MD,
- Paul O'Connor, MD,
- Ernst-Wilhelm Radue, MD,
- Chris Polman, MD,
- Reinhard Hohlfeld, MD,
- Krzysztof Selmaj, MD,
- Shannon Ritter, MS,
- Rolf Schlosshauer, MSc,
- Philipp von Rosenstiel, MD,
- Lixin Zhang-Auberson, MD and
- Gordon Francis, MD
- Ludwig Kappos, MD,
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- From the Department of Neurology (L.K.), University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; St. Michael's Hospital (P.O.'C.), Toronto, Canada; Medical Image Analysis Centre (E.-W.R.), University Hospital, University of Basel, Switzerland; Department of Neurology (C.P.), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (R.H.), Germany; Department of Neurology (K.S.), Medical University of Lodz, Poland; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (S.R., G.F.), East Hanover, NJ; and Novartis Pharma AG (R.S., P.v.R., L.Z.-A.), Basel, Switzerland.
- Correspondence to Professor Kappos: lkappos{at}uhbs.ch
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