French Registry for Monitoring Pregnancies for Multiple Sclerosis

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The influence of pregnancy on the course of multiple sclerosis (MS) has long been a controversial topic. After the publication of the first large prospective study of pregnancy and MS in 1998, counselling of women with MS has radically changed and many patients have been able to fulfill their desire of motherhood. However, there are still some challenges for the neurologist, who has to face old unanswered questions or new issues, regarding the use of disease modifying drugs (DMDs) in this period of life, effects on the short and long term outcome of the mother (in terms of relapses and disability) and the child, role of breast-feeding and locoregional analgesia. To set up a national prospective pregnancy registry for patients with MS, nested within the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaque (OFSEP) cohort, owing to a better knowledge of interactions between MS and pregnancy-related issues (pregnancy itself, locoregional analgesia, breastfeeding, impact of using or stopping DMDs on women/children…)

What you commit to

• Study type: Observational
• Planned participants: 1500
• From 12 Aug 2019 to the primary completion date, 12 Aug 2036
• 48 sites in 2 countries
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Who the study is looking for

Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

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Sites (48)

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