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The Impact of Interferon Beta 1a on Egyptian Relapse-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Sponsored by German University in Cairo

About this trial

Last updated 2 years ago

Study ID

MSINF

Status

Recruiting

Type

Interventional

Phase

N/A

Placebo

No

Accepting

18-75 Years
18 to 50 Years
All
All

Not accepting

Not accepting
Healthy Volunteers

Trial Timing

Ended 2 years ago

What is this trial about?

Our study aimed to investigate the effect of interferon beta 1a on the clinical and immunological parameters in Egyptian relapse-remitting multiple sclerosis patients

What are the participation requirements?

Yes

Inclusion Criteria

- Age between 18 and 50 years at time of signing informed consent form.

- Relapsing- remitting multiple sclerosis as per the McDonald 2017 criteria, including an MRI brain satisfying the 2017 radiological criteria.

- Full-field visual evoked potential (VEP) P100 latency in at least one eye of ≥118 ms.

- Kurtzke EDSS step 0.0 - 6.0.

- At the time of screening, being treated with a stable dose for at least 6 months of a category 1 multiple sclerosis DMT or for at least 2 years with a category 2 DMT.

No

Exclusion Criteria

- they had been treated in the last 30 days with methylprednisolone

- they had changed their IFN-β preparation within the last 18 months

- they had other chronic diseases associated with MS

- they had been previously treated with immunosuppressive agents

Locations

Location

Status

Recruiting