[Future challenges in multiple sclerosis].
Multiple sclerosis occurs in genetically susceptible individuals, in whom an unknown environmental factor triggers an immune response, giving rise to a chronic and disabling autoimmune disease. Currently, significant progress is being made in our knowledge of the frequency and distribution of multiple sclerosis and its risk factors, genetics, pathology, pathogenesis, diagnostic and prognostic markers, and treatment. This has radically changed patients' and clinicians' expectations of multiple sclerosis and has raised hope that there will soon be a way to control the disease.
Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Neurociencias, Servicio de Neurología, Hospitales Universitarios Regional y Virgen de la Victoria de Málaga, Málaga, España; Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Málaga (IBIMA), Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, España. Electronic address: oscar.fernandez.sspa@gmail.com.
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D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy
Epidemiology; Epidemiología; Esclerosis múltiple; Genetics; Genética; Multiple sclerosis; Pathogenesis; Patogenia; Prognosis; Pronóstico; Tratamiento; Treatment