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List of works by Maria Pia Sormani

6 Minute walk test in Duchenne MD patients with different mutations: 12 month changes

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

A Comprehensive Review on Copemyl(®).

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A Three-Year Study of Brain Atrophy after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Rapidly Evolving Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

scientific article published on 20 September 2007

A magnetic resonance imaging study of the cervical cord of patients with CADASIL.

scientific article published in May 2001

A parametric model fitting time to first event for overdispersed data: application to time to relapse in multiple sclerosis ⬇️

scientific article published on November 15, 2011

A practical review of the neuropathology and neuroimaging of multiple sclerosis.

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A proof-of-concept application of a novel scoring approach for personalized medicine in multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

A prospective comparative trial of adjunct screening with tomosynthesis or ultrasound in women with mammography-negative dense breasts (ASTOUND-2)

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

Adjunct Screening With Tomosynthesis or Ultrasound in Women With Mammography-Negative Dense Breasts: Interim Report of a Prospective Comparative Trial

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Age independently affects myelin integrity as detected by magnetization transfer magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis

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An "all-wheel drive" proposal to accelerate clinical research in common and rare neurological diseases

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

Approved drugs for multiple sclerosis: the challenge of choice

scientific article published on 11 February 2017

Assessing Repair in Multiple Sclerosis: Outcomes for Phase II Clinical Trials.

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Assessing brain atrophy rates in a large population of untreated multiple sclerosis subtypes.

scientific article published in June 2010

Assessing long-term prognosis improvement as a consequence of treatment pattern changes in MS.

scientific article published on January 2017

Atlas‐Based Versus Individual‐Based Fiber Tracking of the Corpus Callosum in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Reliability and Clinical Correlations ⬇️

scientific article published on September 13, 2011

Autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation and other cellular therapy in multiple sclerosis and immune-mediated neurological diseases: updated guidelines and recommendations from the EBMT Autoimmune Diseases Working Party (ADWP) and the Joi

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for treatment of multiple sclerosis

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Autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation with an intermediate intensity conditioning regimen in multiple sclerosis: the Italian multi-centre experience

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Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in multiple sclerosis: A meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in multiple sclerosis: a phase II trial.

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Axonal injury in early multiple sclerosis is irreversible and independent of the short-term disease evolution

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Benefits of glucocorticoids in non-ambulant boys/men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A multicentric longitudinal study using the Performance of Upper Limb test. ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Bimonthly assessment of magnetization transfer magnetic resonance imaging parameters in multiple sclerosis: a 14-month, multicentre, follow-up study.

scientific article published on 19 January 2010

Blood neurofilament light as a potential endpoint in Phase 2 studies in MS.

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Breast cancer incidence after hormonal treatments for infertility: systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies.

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COVID-19 in patients with multiple sclerosis undergoing disease-modifying treatments

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Can we measure long-term treatment effects in multiple sclerosis?

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Cerebellar volume as imaging outcome in progressive multiple sclerosis

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Challenges and opportunities in designing clinical trials for neuromyelitis optica

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Classification criteria for autoinflammatory recurrent fevers

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Clinical activity after fingolimod cessation: disease reactivation or rebound?

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Clinical baseline factors predict response to natalizumab: their usefulness in patient selection

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Clinical epidemiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Liguria, Italy: An update of LIGALS register.

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Clinical trial design for progressive MS trials

scientific article published in October 2017

Cognitive clinico-radiological paradox in early stages of multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

Combined MRI lesions and relapses as a surrogate for disability in multiple sclerosis.

scientific article published on 5 October 2011

Comment on the letter by Messori et al. (European Journal of Neurology 2013; 20: e131)

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Correction: Long Term Natural History Data in Ambulant Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: 36-Month Changes

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

Defining and scoring response to IFN-β in multiple sclerosis.

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Defining responders to therapies by a statistical modeling approach applied to randomized clinical trial data

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Determinants of therapy switch in multiple sclerosis treatment-naïve patients: A real-life study

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

Diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced spectral mammography: Systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Different MRI patterns in MS worsening after stopping fingolimod

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

ECTRIMS/EAN Guideline on the pharmacological treatment of people with multiple sclerosis

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ECTRIMS/EAN guideline on the pharmacological treatment of people with multiple sclerosis.

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Early neurodevelopmental assessment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Effect of Anakinra on Recurrent Pericarditis Among Patients With Colchicine Resistance and Corticosteroid Dependence: The AIRTRIP Randomized Clinical Trial.

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Effect of fingolimod on diffuse brain tissue damage in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Efficacy of different rituximab therapeutic strategies in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Equivalence of Generic Glatiramer Acetate in Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Establishing pathological cut-offs of brain atrophy rates in multiple sclerosis.

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Estimates of age-dependent cutoffs for pathological brain volume loss using SIENA/FSL-a longitudinal brain volumetry study in healthy adults.

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Estimating a treatment effect: Choosing between relative and absolute measures

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Expanded Disability Status Scale Progression Assessment Heterogeneity in Multiple Sclerosis According to Geographical Areas

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Extending the Interval of Natalizumab Dosing: Is Efficacy Preserved?

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Fingolimod effect on brain volume loss independently contributes to its effect on disability.

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Functional changes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a 12-month longitudinal cohort study.

scientific article published on 6 July 2011

Gray Matter Correlates of Cognitive Performance Differ between Relapsing-Remitting and Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

HPV-related oropharyngeal carcinoma with Overt Level II and/or III metastases at presentation: The risk of subclinical disease in ipsilateral levels IB, IV and V.

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Head-to-head drug comparisons in multiple sclerosis: Urgent action needed

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Hematopoietic mobilization: Potential biomarker of response to natalizumab in multiple sclerosis.

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How much do periventricular lesions assist in distinguishing migraine with aura from CIS?

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Ibudilast: a paradigm shift for progressive MS?

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Identification and validation of a new set of five genes for prediction of risk in early breast cancer

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

Identification of multiple sclerosis patients at highest risk of cognitive impairment using an integrated brain magnetic resonance imaging assessment approach

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

Impairment in explicit visuomotor sequence learning is related to loss of microstructural integrity of the corpus callosum in multiple sclerosis patients with minimal disability.

scientific article published on 30 April 2011

Improving the characterization of radiologically isolated syndrome suggestive of multiple sclerosis

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In vivo assessment of cervical cord damage in MS patients: a longitudinal diffusion tensor MRI study.

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Inclusion of brain volume loss in a revised measure of 'no evidence of disease activity' (NEDA-4) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Increased incidence of axonal Guillain-Barré syndrome in La Spezia area of Italy: A 13-year follow-up study

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Indirect comparisons of treatment effects: Network meta-analyses

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Influence of aging on brain gray and white matter changes assessed by conventional, MT, and DT MRI.

scientific article published in February 2006

Innovative quantitative testing of hand function in Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Intense immunosuppression followed by autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation as a therapeutic strategy in aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis

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Intense immunosuppression followed by autologous stem cell transplantation in severe multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Intra-arterial transplantation of HLA-matched donor mesoangioblasts in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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Intra-arterial transplantation of HLA-matched donor mesoangioblasts in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Intracortical lesions: relevance for new MRI diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis.

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Is multiple sclerosis a length-dependent central axonopathy? The case for therapeutic lag and the asynchronous progressive MS hypotheses.

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Italian multicentre observational study of the prevalence of CCSVI in multiple sclerosis (CoSMo study): rationale, design, and methodology

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Laparoscopic Splenectomy Versus Open Splenectomy In Massive and Giant Spleens: Should we Update the 2008 EAES Guidelines?

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Lifespan normative data on rates of brain volume changes

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Long term natural history data in ambulant boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: 36-month changes.

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Long-term Outcomes After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Multiple Sclerosis

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Long-term assessment of no evidence of disease activity in relapsing-remitting MS.

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Long-term disability progression in primary progressive multiple sclerosis: a 15-year study

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Long-term disability trajectories in primary progressive MS patients: A latent class growth analysis

scientific article published on April 2017

Long-term impact of interferon or Glatiramer acetate in multiple sclerosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

Longitudinal Characterization of Cortical Lesion Development and Evolution in Multiple Sclerosis with 7.0-T MRI

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Low intensity lympho-ablative regimen followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in severe forms of multiple sclerosis: A MRI-based clinical study.

scientific article published on 12 January 2015

MRI FLAIR lesion segmentation in multiple sclerosis: Does automated segmentation hold up with manual annotation?

scientific article published on 20 November 2016

MRI lesions as a surrogate for relapses in multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysis of randomised trials.

scientific article published on 03 June 2013

MRI measures should be a primary outcome endpoint in Phase III randomized, controlled trials in multiple sclerosis: yes

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Maturational Trajectory of Processing Speed Performance in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Measuring disability in multiple sclerosis: Walking plus much more

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Modeling the distribution of new MRI cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis longitudinal studies by Sormani MP, Calabrese M, Signori A, Giorgio A, Gallo P, De Stefano N [PLoS One 2011;6(10):e26712. Epub 2011 October 20].

scientific article published on 26 January 2012

Modelling the distribution of cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis.

scientific article published on 14 July 2011

Multiple sclerosis: clinical trial design 2019

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

NEDA status in highly active MS can be more easily obtained with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation than other drugs.

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Natalizumab discontinuation in the increasing complexity of multiple sclerosis therapy

scientific article published on 28 March 2014

New imaging language skills required in MS.

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

No evidence of beneficial effects of plasmapheresis in natalizumab-associated PML.

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Observational case-control study of the prevalence of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis: results from the CoSMo study

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Outcomes after fingolimod to alemtuzumab treatment shift in relapsing-remitting MS patients: a multicentre cohort study

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Pathologic complete response as a potential surrogate for the clinical outcome in patients with breast cancer after neoadjuvant therapy: a meta-regression of 29 randomized prospective studies

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Patterns of disease progression in type 2 and 3 SMA: Implications for clinical trials.

scientific article published on 3 December 2015

Pharmacokinetics of lopinavir determined with an ELISA test in youths with perinatally acquired HIV.

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Predicting disability progression in multiple sclerosis: Insights from advanced statistical modeling

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Prediction of on-treatment disability worsening in RRMS with the MAGNIMS score

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Predictors of hospital-based multidisciplinary rehabilitation effects in persons with multiple sclerosis: a large-scale, single-centre study

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Prevalence of disability improvement as a potential outcome for multiple sclerosis trials

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Evolving From Radiologically Isolated Syndrome.

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Prognostic factors versus markers of response to treatment versus surrogate endpoints: Three different concepts

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Quantitative assessment of finger motor performance: Normative data

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Radiologically Isolated Syndrome: 10-Year Risk Estimate of a Clinical Event

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Radiologically isolated syndrome: 5-year risk for an initial clinical event

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Real-world studies provide reliable comparisons of disease modifying therapies in MS - No

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Refining response to treatment as defined by the Modified Rio Score.

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Relevance of asymptomatic spinal MRI lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Relevance of hypointense brain MRI lesions for long-term worsening of clinical disability in relapsing multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

Reliability of the Performance of Upper Limb assessment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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Remote ischemic postconditioning as a strategy to reduce acute kidney injury during primary PCI: a post-hoc analysis of a randomized trial.

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Reply: To PMID 24006277

scientific article published on 07 March 2014

Reporting of subgroup analyses from clinical trials ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Reporting treatment outcomes in observational data: A fine balance.

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Response to immunosuppressive treatment predicts outcome in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease: a single-center analysis of longitudinal data.

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Revised upper limb module for spinal muscular atrophy: 12 month changes

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Risk factors for chronic kidney disease among human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients: A European case control study

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Sativex(®) and clinical-neurophysiological measures of spasticity in progressive multiple sclerosis.

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Scoring treatment response in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis.

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Short-term evolution of individual enhancing MS lesions studied with magnetization transfer imaging.

scientific article published in September 1999

Should frequent MRI monitoring be performed in natalizumab-treated MS patients? A contribution to a recent debate

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Single-Port Versus Conventional Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Better Cosmesis at the Price of an Increased Incisional Hernia Rate?

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Steroid treatment of acute graft versus host disease grade I: a randomized trial.

scientific article published on 29 September 2017

Subclinical motor impairment assessed with an engineered glove correlates with magnetic resonance imaging tissue damage in radiologically isolated syndrome

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Subgroup analysis in MS trials

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Subgroups of multiple sclerosis patients with larger treatment benefits: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

Thalamic Damage Predicts the Evolution of Primary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis at 5 Years

scientific article published on 10 March 2011

The influence of slice orientation on brain MRI lesion load measurement in multiple sclerosis.

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The long-term effect of AHSCT on MRI measures of MS evolution: a five-year follow-up study.

scientific article published on 27 April 2007

The most frequently asked question to a statistician: The sample size.

scientific article published in February 2017

Three-Dimensional Shape and Surface Features Distinguish Multiple Sclerosis Lesions from Nonspecific White Matter Disease.

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Time to first relapse as an endpoint in multiple sclerosis clinical trials.

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Timed Rise from Floor as a Predictor of Disease Progression in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: An Observational Study

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To do or not to do? plasma exchange and timing of steroid administration in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Trans-synaptic degeneration in the optic pathway. A study in clinically isolated syndrome and early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis with or without optic neuritis

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis - insights from real-world observational studies.

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Treatment effect on brain atrophy correlates with treatment effect on disability in multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 2 January 2014

Treatment of multiple sclerosis with rituximab: A multicentric Italian-Swiss experience

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis after 24 doses of natalizumab: evidence from an Italian spontaneous, prospective, and observational study (the TY-STOP Study).

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Treatment response score to glatiramer acetate or interferon beta-1a

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Ultrasound versus magnetic resonance imaging for Morton neuroma: systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Unraveling treatment response in multiple sclerosis: A clinical and MRI challenge

scientific article published on 26 December 2018

Updated views on autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for treatment of multiple sclerosis

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Upper limb function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: 24 month longitudinal data.

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Urinary JCV-DNA Testing during Natalizumab Treatment May Increase Accuracy of PML Risk Stratification

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Validating the use of brain volume cutoffs to identify clinically relevant atrophy in RRMS.

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Validation of 1-year predictive score of long-term response to interferon-β in everyday clinical practice multiple sclerosis patients

scientific article published on 06 April 2015

Why non-inferiority is more challenging than superiority?

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Within-patient fluctuation of brain volume estimates from short-term repeated MRI measurements using SIENA/FSL

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

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