Newly diagnosed relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) and high risk clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients will be treated with ocrelizumab at disease onset to see if treatment favorably alters CSF markers of chronic inflammation.
Newly diagnosed relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) and high risk clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients age 18-50 will be treated with ocrelizumab within 90 days of first clinical MS/CIS presentation and re-dosed as maintenance therapy every 6 months for 3 years to see if treatment favorably alters CSF markers of chronic inflammation Investigators hope data that will provide a foundation for further studies that treating relapsing MS patients at clinical onset (using a B-cell depleting therapy) may improve longer-term outcomes.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
open label biomarker study
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Comparison of intrathecal synthesis of gammaglobulins in treatment-naïve relapsing MS and clinically isolated syndrome participants before and after treatment with ocrelizumab
Comparison of intrathecal synthesis of gammaglobulins in treatment-naïve relapsing MS and clinically isolated syndrome participants before and after 3 years of treatment with ocrelizumab. Intrathecal synthesis is measured by either a) normalization of the IgG Index (0.6 is the upper limit of normal) or b) eradication of oligoclonal bands
Time frame: 3 years
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