Safety and Tolerability of Rituximab in Neuromyelitis Optica
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Official title
Open Label Study of Safety and Tolerability of Rituximab in Neuromyelitis Optica, Recurrent Transverse Myelitis and Recurrent Bilateral Simultaneous Optic Neuritis
Brief summary
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The goal of this research study is to investigate whether Rituximab is safe to use in patients suffering from NMO, or who are at high risk for developing NMO. It is thought that NMO is caused by the immune system reacting against the optic nerves and spinal cord. B cells are a part of the immune system that may contribute to the illness. Rituximab is an antibody that depletes B cells. Depletion of these B cells with Rituximab may induce remission of the disease. Because pathological and serological studies suggest that NMO appears to be, at least in part, a B-cell mediated disease Rituximab, is an attractive treatment candidate for this disease.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00501748
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 20 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 12 Years to 86 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 31, 2003
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2010
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2010
- Last update posted
- Sep 26, 2011
2004 – 2010
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCSF MS Center , 350 Parnassus Ave , suite #908 | San Francisco | California | 94117 | — |
| The Neurological Institute of New York MS Center | Columbia University Medical Center 710 West 168th Street, | New York | 10032 | — |
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- Last update posted Sep 26, 2011 · Synced Sep 7, 2026
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