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Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a number of changes to health systems, including the provision of health services to patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Work in the Clinic for Neurology of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (CN-CCM) with MS patients continued as much as possible during the epide...

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Autores principales: Erakovic, Jevto, Milikic, Dragica, Radulovic, Ljiljana, Perunicic, Slavisa, Idrizovic, Zilha, Roganovic, Milovan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2020.100263
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author Erakovic, Jevto
Milikic, Dragica
Radulovic, Ljiljana
Perunicic, Slavisa
Idrizovic, Zilha
Roganovic, Milovan
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description The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a number of changes to health systems, including the provision of health services to patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Work in the Clinic for Neurology of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (CN-CCM) with MS patients continued as much as possible during the epidemic. The administration of the already started disease-modifying therapy (DMT) continued, and the introduction of the new one was postponed until the moment when the epidemic started to slow down. During the epidemic period, plasmapheresis treatment was performed in CN-CCM without any complications. New ways of communications (special e-mail address and phone line) with MS patients during epidemic were realized. During epidemic, smaller number of relapses were reported compared to same period in 2019. There were not MS patients in Montenegro suffering from SARS-Cov2 virus infection.
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spelling pubmed-74284332020-08-16 Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic Erakovic, Jevto Milikic, Dragica Radulovic, Ljiljana Perunicic, Slavisa Idrizovic, Zilha Roganovic, Milovan eNeurologicalSci Letters to the Editor The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a number of changes to health systems, including the provision of health services to patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Work in the Clinic for Neurology of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (CN-CCM) with MS patients continued as much as possible during the epidemic. The administration of the already started disease-modifying therapy (DMT) continued, and the introduction of the new one was postponed until the moment when the epidemic started to slow down. During the epidemic period, plasmapheresis treatment was performed in CN-CCM without any complications. New ways of communications (special e-mail address and phone line) with MS patients during epidemic were realized. During epidemic, smaller number of relapses were reported compared to same period in 2019. There were not MS patients in Montenegro suffering from SARS-Cov2 virus infection. Elsevier 2020-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7428433/ /pubmed/32835119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2020.100263 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Milikic, Dragica
Radulovic, Ljiljana
Perunicic, Slavisa
Idrizovic, Zilha
Roganovic, Milovan
Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic
title Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in Clinical Centre of Montenegro during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort reorganization of multiple sclerosis health care system in clinical centre of montenegro during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Letters to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2020.100263
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