FP39-WE-02 A 15-year follow-up study to identify early predictors of long-term response to intramuscular interferon beta-1a therapy in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

2009 ◽  
Vol 285 ◽  
pp. S119
Author(s):  
R.A. Bermel ◽  
R.A. Rudick ◽  
R. Hyde ◽  
B. Weinstock-Guttman ◽  
D. Bourdette ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1627-1636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Drulovic ◽  
Jovana Ivanovic ◽  
Sarlota Mesaros ◽  
Vanja Martinovic ◽  
Darija Kisic-Tepavcevic ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. e4.15-e4
Author(s):  
Claire McCarthy ◽  
Orla Tuohy ◽  
Laura Azzopardi ◽  
Onajite Kousin-Ezewu ◽  
Joanne Jones ◽  
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BackgroundAlemtuzumab is recently licensed for use in active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in Europe and the USA. This observational cohort study investigated the long term safety of alemtuzumab in RRMS.MethodsClinical data was collected from a cohort of 87 patients who participated in open label studies of alemtuzumab in Cambridge, UK from 1999 to 2012. Pregnancy outcomes and the occurrence of moderate to severe infections were recorded.ResultsOver a median 7-year follow-up (range 33–144 months), no serious infections occurred that required hospitalisation. There were 11 cases of varicella zoster virus reactivation and one case of primary varicella zoster virus infection. In this cohort 15 babies were born to 12 women treated with alemtuzumab. The median interval from their most recent alemtuzumab treatment to birth was 26 months (range 13–86 months). All of the babies were healthy and delivered without complications. One woman had experienced a miscarriage at 8 weeks gestation but went on to have two successful pregnancies.ConclusionsDuring prolonged follow-up of this cohort of patients treated with alemtuzumab no serious infections occurred. No increased risk of miscarriage or foetal abnormality was seen in the small number of pregnancies studied.


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