Health Boards
Sun-01-05-2016, 20:22 PM
Hi William yes it's good to see you again (I'm more of the DMF gang)
Yes we have discussed tecfidera and the way it's being used on here before, and I agree that the rates of PML have gone up since its introduction, it's a shame they didn't go for a slow build up with the dose as the body doesn't have time to adjust and the lymphocytes take a hit and leaves the way open for this infection ...
As far as Fumaderm is concerned the incidence of PML is very small and as Caroline has said the known cases are probably due to poor monitoring
Yes we have discussed tecfidera and the way it's being used on here before, and I agree that the rates of PML have gone up since its introduction, it's a shame they didn't go for a slow build up with the dose as the body doesn't have time to adjust and the lymphocytes take a hit and leaves the way open for this infection ...
As far as Fumaderm is concerned the incidence of PML is very small and as Caroline has said the known cases are probably due to poor monitoring