An observational study in Multiple Sclerosis and Pregnancy, sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 100 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-01-14.
Sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals · Observational
The Kesimpta Pregnancy Registry is an observational, exposure cohort designed study to examine pregnancy and infant outcomes in women and infants who are exposed to Kesimpta (ofatumumab) during pregnancy to treat MS.
The study is expected to enroll for approximately 7 years and follow the pregnant women and their infant(s) over a maximum of 21 months.
The study will be conducted as two sub-studies leveraging independent ongoing pregnancy registries:
Both registries will independently collect and assess data related to the pregnancy and infant outcomes of interest and provide aggregate data which will be further combined (metaanalyses) by Novartis (referred to as the Sponsor) or a designated contract research organization (CRO).
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This study's planned enrollment of 725 is above the median of 100 across 1,016 observational studies indexed under Multiple Sclerosis.
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Participants from sub-studies, namely the Kesimpta-OTIS sub-study and Kesimpta-DMSKW sub-study, of identical design, conducted in parallel, enrolling pregnant women (MS and non-MS) residing in US or Canada and pregnant women (MS only) from Germany respectively.
Participants must meet all the criteria listed under the respective cohorts to enroll in that particular cohort of the registry:
Cohort 1: Kesimpta-Exposed Cohort
Cohort 2: Disease-Matched Comparison Cohort (Comparison Group 1)
Cohort 3: Healthy Comparison Cohort (Comparison Group 2):Kesimpta-OTIS sub-study specific
Exclusion Criteria:
Women meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from the cohort study:
Cohort 1: Kesimpta-Exposed Cohort
Women with exposure to any of the following medications within 5 half-lives (or pharmacodynamic effect when relevant) prior to conception:
Cohort 2: Disease-Matched Comparison Cohort (Comparison Group 1)
Women with exposure to any of the following medications within 5 half-lives (or pharmacodynamic effect when relevant) of conception:
Cohort 3: Healthy Comparison Cohort (Comparison Group 2): Only applicable to Kesimpta-OTIS sub-study
comparison group consisting of women diagnosed with MS who have not used Kesimpta during pregnancy (unexposed disease-matched comparison group).
healthy women who are not diagnosed with MS or any other autoimmune disease, have not had exposure to a known human teratogen, and have not taken Kesimpta in pregnancy (healthy comparison group). Since the DMSKW register is an MS population specific register that does not collect data on non-MS population, this cohort is only applicable in the Kesimpta-OTIS sub-study.
women and infants who are exposed to Kesimpta during pregnancy to treat MS.
Other: Kesimpta
Prospective non-interventional study. There is no treatment allocation. Patients participating in from the two independent sub-studies, namely the Kesimpta-OTIS sub-study and Kesimpta-DMSKW sub-study, of identical design, conducted in parallel, enrolling pregnant women (MS and non-MS) residing in US or Canada and pregnant women (MS only) from Germany respectively are eligible for enrolling to this study.
Also known as: Ofatumumab
Number of participants with major structural defects
Number of participants with major structural defects will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of participants with spontaneous abortion/miscarriage
Number of participants with spontaneous abortion/miscarriage will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of stillbirth cases
Number of stillbirth cases will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of elective termination cases
Number of elective termination cases will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of preterm delivery cases
Number of preterm delivery cases will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of preeclampsia / eclampsia cases
Number of preeclampsia / eclampsia cases will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of cases with pattern of 3 or more minor structural defects
Number of cases with pattern of 3 or more minor structural defects will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of participants small for gestational age
Number of participants small for gestational age will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of participants with postnatal growth small for age at one year of age
Number of participants with postnatal growth small for age at one year of age will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Developmental performance at approximately one year of age: Michaelis developmental milestones questionnaires
The Michaelis developmental milestones questionnaires will be used to assess the developmental performance in live born infants.
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Developmental performance at approximately one year of age: Denver developmental screening test
Denver developmental screening test will be used to assess the developmental performance in live born infants;
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Number of serious or opportunistic infections in the first year of life.
Number of serious or opportunistic infections in the first year of life will be collected
Time frame: Up to 21 months
Plan to share: No
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