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. 2024 Feb 2;31(4):e16186. doi: 10.1111/ene.16186

TABLE 2.

Patient characteristics with initial magnetic resonance imaging findings, cumulative treatment, disease duration at time of baseline testing, individual test results and disease activity 1 year prior to and at the moment of baseline and follow‐up testing.

Patient ID a Sex/age at baseline testing Years of education Year of diagnosis Disease duration at baseline testing, years Initial MRI findings Cumulative treatment Abnormal neuropsychological test results b Disease activity
Baseline Follow‐up 1 year prior to baseline testing At moment of baseline testing 1 year prior to follow‐up testing At moment of follow‐up testing
1 F/50 15 2005, definite 15 CC, ST, GM, IT, DR C, PLEX, MMF Phonological fluency

Cognitive flexibility, mathematics

Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive
2 M/38 15 2016, probable 4 CC, ST, IT, DR, LM, CE C, PLEX, AZA, RTX, MMF Information processing speed, phonological fluency

Information processing speed, cognitive flexibility, phonological fluency

Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive
4 M/39 15 2018, definite 2 CC, ST, GM, IT, DR, LM, CE CYC, NAT Phonological fluency

Phonological fluency

01/2020: Disease activity with migraine

Active

Inactive Inactive
6 F/43 17 2011, definite 9 CC, ST, IT, DR C, PLEX, MMF, AZA

Information processing speed, cognitive flexibility, mathematics, visual perception, semantic and phonological fluency

Missing data Inactive Inactive / /
7 M/70 15 2018, definite 2 CC, ST, GM, IT, DR C, PLEX, MMF, RTX

Information processing speed, verbal memory, visual perception, neglect, phonological fluency, finger dexterity

Information processing speed, cognitive flexibility, verbal memory, wordfinding, finger dexterity Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive
8 F/32 14 2016, definite 4 CC, ST RTX

Mathematics, phonological fluency

Phonological fluency

10/2020: Disease activity with BRAO lesions

Active Inactive Inactive
10 F/30 17

2015, definite

5 CC, ST, DR C, MMF, IVIG, RTX No cognitive impairment No cognitive impairment Inactive Inactive

01/2021: disease activity with sensory complaints

Inactive
11 F/34 12 2019, probable 2 CC, ST None

Mathematics, semantic fluency, phonological fluency, finger dexterity

Semantic fluency, phonological fluency, verbal reasoning

2020: disease activity with sensory complaints, migraine and visual symptoms

Inactive Inactive Inactive
13 F/35 15 2020, definite 5 CC, ST, DR C, PLEX, RTX, MMF Verbal attention, mathematics

Cognitive flexibility, mathematics, verbal memory

Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive
14 F/31 16 2019, definite 2 CC, ST C

Cognitive flexibility

Missing data Inactive Inactive / /
15 M/45 17

2020, definite

1 CC, ST, IT, DR C, PLEX, MMF, RTX No cognitive impairment No cognitive impairment Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive
16 F/38 15 2020, probable 1 CC, ST PLEX, MMF

Phonological fluency

No cognitive impairment Active Active Inactive Inactive
17 M/28 15 2020, probable 1 CC, ST, IT, DR, LM C, PLEX, RTX, MMF Information processing speed, visual perception, phonological fluency, wordfinding Cognitive flexibility 09/2020: disease activity with visual symptoms Active Inactive Inactive

Abbreviations: AZA, azathioprine; BRAO, Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion; C, corticosteroids; CC, corpus callosum; CE, contrast enhancing; CYC, cyclophosphamide; DR, diffusion restrictive; F, female; GM, grey matter; IT, infratentorial; IVIG, intravenous immunoglobulin; LM, leptomeningeal; M, male; MMF, mycophenolate mofetil; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; NAT, natalizumab; NP, not performed; PLEX, plasma exchange; RTX, rituximab; ST, supratentorial.

a

The same patient ID is used as in Dekeyser et al. [28]. For a more comprehensive overview we refer to this article.

b

Deficits on neuropsychological tests are shown.