EDMUS at ECTRIMS 2006

September 27-30, 2006 / Madrid, Spain

The EDMUS booth

As usual, thanks again to the organizers, the ECTRIMS congress has been a great opportunity to meet the users of the EDMUS system and answer their needs.

An EDMUS booth (no. 119) was held by Dr. Iuliana ACHITI-IONESCU and Dr. Bernard FRANGOULIS in the exhibition hall.

EDMUS 3.5

They were at your disposal for any information regarding the latest version of the software (3.5), presented for the first time on the occasion of ECTRIMS 2006, and the developments to come.

This version is now multilingual: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português (do Brazil), Português (Europeu).

ECTRIMS 2006 web site
 

Thank you to all the EDMUS users and visitors we met in Madrid.

POPARTMUS Study

Information was given on the POPARTMUS phase III study. This is a prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind phase III therapeutic trial which aims at assessing the effect of sex hormones in the prevention of post-partum relapses in multiple sclerosis. Enrolment started in May 2005 in France and has recently started in Italy.

Studies using the EDMUS software

Several posters presented studies using the EDMUS software.

  1. The natural history of primary progressive multiple sclerosis in Lorraine, eastern France
    M. Debouverie, S. Pittion-Vouyovitch on behalf of the Lorsep Group
  2. Increasing incidence of multiple sclerosis in Lorraine, eastern France is not related to better ascertainment of patients with mild disability
    M. Debouverie, S. Pittion-Vouyovitch on behalf of the Lorsep Group
  3. Stronger disability of North Africans compared with Caucasians with multiple sclerosis in France
    S. Jeannin, C. Lebrun, S. Pittion-Vouyovitch, M. Debouverie (Nancy, France)
  4. Multiple sclerosis in North African migrants to southern France
    S. Jeannin, F. Berthier, V. Bourg, C. Lebrun (Nice, France)
  5. Benign multiple sclerosis?
    S. Vukusic, F. Durand-Dubief, R. Marignier, C. Renoux, L. Gignoux, S. Blanc, I. Achiti, C. Confavreux (Lyon, France)
  6. Childhood onset multiple sclerosis (the KIDMUS study): course and
    prognosis as compared to adult onset multiple sclerosis
    C. Renoux, S. Vukusic, Y. Mikaeloff, G. Edan, M. Clanet, B. Dubois, M. Debouverie, B. Brochet, C. Lebrun-Frenay, J. Pelletier, T. Moreau, C. Lubetzki, P. Vermersch, E. Roullet, L. Magy, M. Tardieu, S. Suissa, C. Confavreux for the KIDMUS Study Group
  7. Incidence of multiple sclerosis in Auvergne (French county): a
    population-based study
    F. Taithe, C. Tilignac, L. Rieu, C. Murat, P. Clavelou on behalf of Reseau SEP Auvergne