Serious safety events in rituximab‐treated multiple sclerosis and related disorders

BL Vollmer, AI Wallach, JR Corboy… - Annals of Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Studies investigating rates and risk factors for serious safety events (SSEs)
during rituximab treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum …

Safety and clinical outcomes of rituximab treatment in patients with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica: experience from a national online registry (GRAID)

PS Rommer, T Dörner, K Freivogel, J Haas… - Journal of Neuroimmune …, 2016 - Springer
Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease. Over the last decades
therapeutic options have broadened tremendously. Nevertheless, various therapeutic …

Safety and efficacy of rituximab: experience of a single multiple sclerosis center

B Alldredge, A Jordan, J Imitola… - Clinical …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous
system. B cells play an important pathogenic role in MS. Rituximab (RTX), a B-cell depleting …

Safety and efficacy of rituximab as first-and second line treatment in multiple sclerosis–A cohort study

HM Torgauten, KM Myhr, S Wergeland… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Rituximab is increasingly used as off-label therapy in multiple sclerosis (MS).
More data are needed on safety and efficacy of rituximab, particularly in cohorts of de novo …

Rapidly increasing off‐label use of rituximab in multiple sclerosis in Sweden—Outlier or predecessor?

SG Berntsson, A Kristoffersson… - Acta Neurologica …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Off‐label use of rituximab to treat MS patients in Sweden is high, and the need for
long‐term safety data may not be met. Our objectives were to assess the rate of rituximab …

Adverse event profile differences between rituximab and ocrelizumab: Findings from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting Database

NG Caldito, A Shirani, A Salter… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Rituximab and ocrelizumab are anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies that have
shown a marked reduction in multiple sclerosis (MS) inflammatory activity. However, their …

Rituximab in multiple sclerosis: a retrospective observational study on safety and efficacy

J Salzer, R Svenningsson, P Alping, L Novakova… - Neurology, 2016 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To investigate the safety and efficacy of rituximab in multiple sclerosis (MS).
Methods: In this retrospective uncontrolled observational multicenter study, off-label …

Rituximab in multiple sclerosis at general hospital level

J Hellgren, A Risedal, K Källén - Acta Neurologica …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The use of rituximab (RTX) in multiple sclerosis (MS) is a rapidly increasing
choice of disease‐modifying therapy. Efficacy outside specialized university hospital‐based …

Effects of rituximab on lymphocytes in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica

J Graves, U Vinayagasundaram, EM Mowry… - Multiple sclerosis and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To investigate the effect of rituximab, a B-cell targeted therapy that is used in the
treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO), on other immune cells …

Rituximab vs ocrelizumab in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

I Roos, S Hughes, G McDonnell, CB Malpas… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Ocrelizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody targeted against CD20+ B
cells, reduces the frequency of relapses by 46% and disability worsening by 40% compared …