LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana

Academic MS Center
Medium Practice
5 MS centers statewide
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Part of Major Health SystemResearch Focused

You’re getting care at an academic MS center in Shreveport that focuses on multiple sclerosis and related symptom support. You may appreciate the broad treatment options, including oral, injectable, and infusion therapies, plus help with relapses, safety, and emotional support. You’ll be seen at a single location, so your care is centered in one place.

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Direct Doctor Access2/5
Support Services2/5
Clinical Trials & Research3/5
Insurance & Navigation Help2/5
Scheduling & Virtual Care2/5

About LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport

This center combines MS care with LSU’s academic medical setting, which can be reassuring if you want care connected to a major health system and school of medicine. It also provides education for several MS subtypes, including progressive forms of the disease.

LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport provides neurology care for people living with multiple sclerosis in Shreveport, Louisiana. The center helps with disease-modifying therapy management, relapse and exacerbation treatment, symptom relief, and support for function and safety. It serves people with MS and several major MS subtypes, making it a useful option if you want care that understands how the condition can change over time. As an academic medical center, it also connects MS care with a broader health system and medical school environment.

LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport offers MS care through an academic medical center tied to LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport and the School of Medicine. You can get neurology care for multiple sclerosis, including support for relapses, symptoms, safety, and emotional well-being. The center manages disease-modifying therapies in oral, injectable, and infusion forms and covers several MS subtypes, including relapsing-remitting, secondary progressive, primary progressive, and progressive relapsing MS.

Partnerships & Referral Network

  • National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Services & Treatments

What They Treat
Multiple sclerosisRelapsing-remitting multiple sclerosisSecondary progressive multiple sclerosisPrimary progressive multiple sclerosisProgressive relapsing multiple sclerosis
How They Treat It
Neurology care for multiple sclerosisDisease-modifying therapy managementTreatment of relapses and exacerbationsSymptom managementFunction and safety supportEmotional supportOral medicationsInjectable medicationsInfusionsDisease-modifying therapies

Insurance & Access

Contact
1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103
Insurance & Support

FAQs from LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport

The center cares for multiple sclerosis and several major MS subtypes, including relapsing-remitting, secondary progressive, primary progressive, and progressive relapsing MS.

You can discuss disease-modifying therapy management, along with oral medications, injectable medications, and infusions. The center also helps with relapses, symptom management, and support for function and safety.

Neurology clinic appointments are scheduled at the St. Mary campus in Shreveport. The center is a single-location program.

You can reach the team at shvneurology@lsuhs.edu or by phone at 318-626-0526. Referrals are faxed to 318-698-8005.

This is an academic medical center with MS care connected to LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport and the School of Medicine. It combines neurology treatment with patient support, including emotional support and help with daily function and safety.

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