
Elias Sotirchos
@esotirchos
Neurologist @HopkinsMedicine with interests in #MultipleSclerosis #NeuromyelitisOptica #MOGAD #Neuroimmunology
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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/elias-sotirchos 17-04-2018 15:56:41
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I had a great time talking with Drew Carey, Eye MD, and have to give a shout out to Sinan Akosman for spearheading the project and Mehdi Tavakoli for co-mentoring. Can’t wait for our upcoming PCORI funded clinical trial on early PLEX for severe ON and TM with co-PI Elias Sotirchos!



Among 190 people with MOG antibody-associated disease #MOGAD, relapses were more frequent in the group with CSF-restricted oligoclonal bands, particularly within the first year of follow-up. Study from HCL - Hospices Civils de Lyon Romain Marignier ▶️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…


Elia Sechi Eoin Flanagan link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Delighted to share Kwon & Nanthaya Tisavipat et al study with our Korean colleagues led by Dr Sung-Min Kim ➡️ We found paraneoplastic #MOGAD is rare & tumors lacked MOG immunostaining making the mechanism of this infrequent association uncertain 👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…


Happy to share Albert Aboseif et al multicenter study showing 4% of #MOGAD with meningitis ➡️ Frequent misdiagnosis as infection ➡️ Updates in criteria could incorporate this phenotype ➡️ Path had meningeal T & B cells, microglia & cortical myelin loss👇 jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
