CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Initial findings presented today at the 22nd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) in Madrid, Spain showed that treatment with AVONEX (Interferon beta-1a) promoted a statistically significant recovery of T1-black hole lesion volume by almost 24% (p<0.05) in patients with RRMS compared to baseline. Black holes are indicative of irreversible axonal damage and correlate strongly with development of long-term disability in patients with MS. Furthermore, AVONEX showed a statistically significant improvement in measures of brain atrophy (9.7% [p<0.0001] decrease in lateral ventricular volume in patients with RRMS compared to baseline).
