Publications by authors named "Sarah Gomezelj"

Background: Cladribine is an oral disease-modifying drug authorized by the European Medicine Agency for the treatment of highly active relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS).

Objectives: To provide real-world evidence of cladribine's effectiveness and safety in people with MS (pwMS).

Methods: A retrospective observational multi-center, multi-national study of pwMS who were started on cladribine tablets in ten centers from five European countries.

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Introduction: We aimed to provide insights into transverse myelitis (TM) following COVID-19 by analyzing cases treated at tertiary care neurology centers and a systemic review of the literature.

Methods: The retrospective observational multi-center study was conducted at the four university neurology departments in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Austria. We searched for acute myelitis cases that occurred during or after COVID-19.

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Teriflunomide is an oral disease modifying therapy for patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. It is moderately effective while having a favourable safety profile with liver toxicity being the major concern. We present a series of three patients who developed pulmonary embolism within two years of initiation of teriflunomide treatment.

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Objective: So far, a limited number of real-world evidence studies about the effectiveness and safety of alemtuzumab (ALM) have been published, some of them with a relatively small number of included patients. We aimed to study the efficacy and safety of ALM in real-world clinical practice in two MS centers in Slovenia and Croatia.

Methods: This was a retrospective chart review of 71 consecutive patients with relapsing-remitting MS who were treated with ALM from 2015 till 2018.

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