"MS Topography App Launches"
A new app that offers a new, visual way of understanding multiple sclerosis (MS) was recently launched at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Boston. The app is a disease simulation that creates visualization of MS as a swimming pool. According to creator and MS specialist Stephen C. Krieger, MD, an associate professor of neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the app depicts MS disease topography, mapped in the central nervous stem, as a tool to better understand the variable way MS can develop and change over time. "We have categories of MS clinical course-relapsing-remitting disease, primary progressive, secondary progressive, that clinical trials are based on, but in practice we often see a mixture of relapsing and progressive disease, and so I've tried to conceptualize that as a continuum," said Dr. Krieger in an interview. Thus, the app can serve as a tool for helping patients and physicians better understand the disease and its progression.
- Stephen Krieger, MD, Associate Professor, Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai