Riluzole prescribing, uptake and treatment discontinuation in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Scotland

Kiran Jayaprakash; Stella A Glasmacher; Bernard Pang; Emily Beswick; Arpan R Mehta; Rachel Dakin; Judith Newton; Siddharthan Chandran; Suvankar Pal; CARE-MND Consortium

doi:10.1007/s00415-020-09919-9

Riluzole prescribing, uptake and treatment discontinuation in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Scotland

J Neurol. 2020 Aug;267(8):2459-2461. doi: 10.1007/s00415-020-09919-9. Epub 2020 May 23.

Authors

Kiran Jayaprakash^#^{1

2}, Stella A Glasmacher^#^{1

2}, Bernard Pang², Emily Beswick^{1

3

2}, Arpan R Mehta^{1

3

2

4}, Rachel Dakin^{1

3

2}, Judith Newton^{1

3

2}, Siddharthan Chandran^{1

3

2

4

5}, Suvankar Pal^{6

7

8

9}; CARE-MND Consortium

Collaborators

CARE-MND Consortium:
Shuna Colville, Richard Davenport, Ian Morrison, George Gorrie, Callum Duncan, Myles Connor, David Simpson, Ondrej Dolezal, Katja Lassak, Antonella Benvenga, Javier Carod Artal

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, UK.
² Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK.
³ Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁵ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.
⁶ Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB, UK. suvankar.pal@ed.ac.uk.
⁷ Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. suvankar.pal@ed.ac.uk.
⁸ Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK. suvankar.pal@ed.ac.uk.
⁹ Dementia Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. suvankar.pal@ed.ac.uk.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / drug therapy*
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / epidemiology*
Drug Prescriptions
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Neuroprotective Agents / administration & dosage*
Registries
Riluzole / administration & dosage*
Scotland / epidemiology
Withholding Treatment / trends*

Substances

Neuroprotective Agents
Riluzole

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding