A case of CLIPPERS syndrome responsive to tocilizumab
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- Received September 11, 2018
- Accepted in final form January 8, 2019
- First Published February 4, 2019.
Author Disclosures
- Torge Rempe, MD,
- Jos Steffen Becktepe, MD,
- Imke Metz, MD,
- Wolfgang Brück, MD,
- Klarissa Hanja Stürner, MD,
- Günther Deuschl, MD,
- Daniela Berg, MD,
- Ralf Baron, MD,
- Rainald Zeuner, MD and
- Frank Leypoldt, MD
- Torge Rempe, MD,
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- Jos Steffen Becktepe, MD,
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Ipsen Pharma GmbH, travel funding
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- Imke Metz, MD,
1) commercial: advisory board for Roche.
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1)commercial: speaker honoraria, travel grants from BiogenIdec, Bayer Healthcare, TEVA, Serono, Novartis, Genzyme.
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research grant from BiogenIdec.
grants from German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF, ??German Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis?? (KKNMS), Pattern MS/NMO);
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- Wolfgang Brück, MD,
I serve on the advisory boards of Genzyme, Novartis, Medday, Biogen and Teva Pharma.
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I received honoraria for oral presentations from Teva, Sanofi, Genzyme, Novartis, Merck-Serono, Biogen, Roche and Bayer in the last 2 years.
I am editorial board member of Therapeutic Advances in Neurological disorders, Multiple Sclerosis International and Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
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(1) Teva Pharma, (2) Novartis, (3) Biogen, (4) Genzyme, (5) Medday
(1) German Research foundation (DFG SFB TR43): The brain as a target of inflammatory processes, 2008-2015 German ministry for science and education: Competence network multiple sclerosis, 2010-2018 (2) German Ministry for Education and Research: Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis, 2009-2018 (3)German Ministry for Education and Research: 3D-Patho, 2017-2020
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Tschira Foundation German Multiple Sclerosis Society
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Teva Pharma, expert witness, 2015-2018
- Klarissa Hanja Stürner, MD,
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Klarissa St?rner reports travel grants and speaker honoraria Biogen Idec, Merck, Roche and Sanofi Genzyme outside the submitted work.
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(1) BiogenIdec (IIT Grant)
(1) BMBF,0315610?0315620, Investigator,2015
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- Günther Deuschl, MD,
Medtronic, Boston Scientific
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Boston Scientific
Movement Disorders, editor 2004-2010 Aktuelle Neurologie, co-editor 1994-now
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Thieme publishers
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Medtronic
German Ministry of Education and Research
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- Daniela Berg, MD,
(1) Biogen, (2) BIAL, (3) Lundbeck, (4) UCB Pharma GmbH
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(1)Desitin, travel and speaker honoraria (2)Pfizer, travel (3)Lundbeck, travel and speaker honoraria (4)Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH, travel (5)Coppenrath Stiftung, travel (6)Gr?nenthal GmbH, travel (7)JPND Research, travel (8)Apothekenwirtschaftsdienst GmbH, travel and speaker honoraria (9) Asklepios Kliniken Hamburg GmbH, travel and speaker honoraria (10)Bayer Vital GmbH, travel and speaker honoraria (11)BIAl Deutschland GmbH, travel and speaker honoraria (12)J. Weser GmbH (Zambon), travel and spaeker honoraria (13)AbbVie Deutschland GmbH, travel and Speaker honoraria (14)TEVA GmbH, travel and Speaker honoraria (15)Dekanat der CAU, travel (16)?rztekammer Schleswig-Holstein,travel and Speaker honoraria (17) Deutsche Parkinson Vereinigung (DPV), travel and Speaker honoraria (18)Jansen Neuroscience Network, travel and Speaker honoraria (19)Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, travel (20)Humanitas Research Hospital Mailand, travel (21)Universit?tsmedizin Rostock, travel (22)Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Neurologie (DGN), travel (23)Universit?tsklinik T?bingen, travel (24)Aklepios-Klinik Altona, travel and Speaker honoraria (25)NDR-Fernsehen, travel and Speaker honoraria (26)Segeberger Kliniken, travel (27)Deutsche Parkinson Gesellschaft (DPG), travel (28)Scandinavian Movement Disorder Society, travel (29)International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, travel and speaker honoraria
(1) DGNeurologie, Funding-Co-Editor, (2) Movement Disorders Clinical Practice Journal, Editorial Board, (3) Neurological Research and Practice, Editorial Board (4) Journal of Parkinsons's Disease, Associate Editor (5) Der Nervenarzt, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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(1) Biogen (2) BIAL (3) Lundbeck (4) UCB Pharma GmbH
(1)AbbVie (2)Biogen (3)BIAL (4)Lundbeck (5)UCB Pharma GmbH
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(1)Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (2)UCB Pharma GmbH (3)TEVA Pharma GmbH (4)Novartis Pharma GmbH (5)Lundbeck
(1)BMWi (2)EU
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(1)Michael J.Fox Foundation (2)German Parkinson Disease Society (dPG) (3)Damp foundation
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- Ralf Baron, MD,
Abbvie, Allergan, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Bayer-Schering, Biogenidec, Biotest, AG, Bohringer, Ingelheim, Pharma, GmbH, &, Co., KG, Bristol-Meyers, Squibb, Celegene, Daiichi, Sankyo, Desitin, Eisai, Co., Ltd., Galapagos, NV, Genentech, Genzyme, GmbH, Glenmark, Pharmaceuticals, Gr?nenthal, GmbH, Kyowa, Kirin, GmbH, Lilly, GmbH, Medtronic, Merck, MSD, GmbH, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi, Pasteur, Sequirus, TAD, Pharma, GmbH, Teva, Pharma, Theranexus, Vertex, Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Pfizer, Genzyme GmbH, Gr?nenthal GmbH, Mundipharma, Sanofi Pasteur, Medtronic Inc. Neuromodulation, Eisai Co.Ltd., Lilly GmbH, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH&Co.KG, Astellas, Desitin, Teva Pharma, Bayer- Schering, MSD GmbH, Seqirus, Novartis, TAD Pharma GmbH
Nature Reviews Neurology (Advisory Board), European Journal of Pain
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Pfizer, Genzyme GmbH, Gr?nenthal GmbH, Mundipharma, Allergan, Sanofi Pasteur, Medtronic, Eisai, Lilly GmbH, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH&Co.KG, Astellas, Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Biogenidec, AstraZeneca, Merck, Abbvie, Daiichi Sankyo, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Seqirus, Teva Pharma, Genentech, Galapagos NV, Kyowa Kirin GmbH, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Biotest AG, Celgene, Desitin, Theranexus
Pfizer, Genzyme GmbH, Gr?nenthal GmbH, Mundipharma, Sanofi Pasteur, Medtronic Inc. Neuromodulation, Eisai Co.Ltd., Lilly GmbH, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH&Co.KG, Astellas, Desitin, Teva Pharma, Bayer- Schering, MSD GmbH, Seqirus, Novartis, TAD Pharma GmbH
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Abbvie, Allergan, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Bayer-Schering, Biogenidec, Biotest, AG, Bohringer, Ingelheim, Pharma, GmbH, &, Co., KG, Bristol-Meyers, Squibb, Celegene, Daiichi, Sankyo, Desitin, Eisai, Co., Ltd., Galapagos, NV, Genentech, Genzyme, GmbH, Glenmark, Pharmaceuticals, Gr?nenthal, GmbH, Kyowa, Kirin, GmbH, Lilly, GmbH, Medtronic, Merck, MSD, GmbH, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi, Pasteur, Sequirus, TAD, Pharma, GmbH, Teva, Pharma, Theranexus, Vertex, Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Member of the IMI ?Europain? collaboration and industry members of this are: Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Esteve, UCB- Pharma, Sanofi Aventis, Gr?nenthal GmbH, Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH&Co.KG ,German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): Member of the ERA_NET NEURON / IM-PAIN Project (01EW1503), German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (01EM0903), NoPain system biology (0316177C), Member of the EU Project No 633491: DOLORisk, EU: IMI 2 Paincare
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Copyrights, Pfizer
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- Rainald Zeuner, MD and
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Roche: Speaker and travel honoraria
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- Frank Leypoldt, MD
(1) Roche, Biogen
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(1) Grifols (2) Teva (3) Biogen (4) Fresenius (5) Bayer (6) Novartis (7) Merck (8) Roche
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Institute of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig- Holstein Campus Kiel, Germany, commercial antibody testing service, 20%
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- From the Department of Neurology (T.R., J.S.B., K.H.S., G.D., D.B., R.B., F.L.), Department of Rheumatology (R.Z.), and Neuroimmunology, Institute of Clinical Chemistry (F.L.), Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy (R.B.), University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany; Department of Neurology (T.R.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and Institute of Neuropathology (I.M., W.B.), University Hospital Göttingen, Germany.
- Correspondence
Dr. Leypoldt frank.leypoldt{at}uksh.de
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