Active clinical trials for "Multiple Sclerosis"

Severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus and the causative agent of COVID 19 disease, whose presentation symptoms range from asymptomatic infection to mild flu-like symptoms to multi system failure and death, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Novel vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have very recently been developed; however, the effectiveness, immune response, and short- or long-term safety of these vaccines have not been tested in immunocompromised patients on anti-CD-20 therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS) or for other disorders. This study will examine the immune response of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna messenger RNA (mRNA)-platform vaccines developed against SARS-CoV-2 virus given as standard of care (SOC) in MS patients on ocrelizumab.

This is a 24-month, prospective, exploratory, observational study to investigate immune phenotypes in patients with MS following treatment with ocrelizumab.

Current evidence suggests that cigarette smoke increases disease progression in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) and worsen their symptoms. 70% of PwMS report sleep disturbances that negatively affects their quality of life. Cigarette smoke has been found to be associated with sleep disturbances in healthy adult smokers, but this relationship is unknown in PwMS. Also, those who smoke cigarettes have less physical endurance resulting in undesirable effects on physical activity. Also, current evidence suggests that genes play a major role in smoking behavior and that certain genetic differences greatly affects nicotine dependence. To our knowledge, this was never explored before among PwMS. This study aims to explore the association between cigarette smoke, sleep quality, and physical activity in PwMS. Another aim is to explore the genetic susceptibility of people with MS to cigarette smoke, specifically to nicotine dependence

This is an observational, multicenter, single-arm, prospective study conducted in Italy

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that utilizes low amplitude direct currents applied via scalp electrodes to apply currents to the brain and modulate the level of cortical excitability. tDCS applied over the dorsolateral prefrontal and motor cortex has been reported to be able to decrease pain sensation and to increase pain threshold in healthy subjects and is effective in reducing central chronic pain in patients with multiple sclerosis (PwMS.) In spite of the encouraging results of tDCS in PwMS, detailed mechanisms accounting for its analgesic effect have not yet been elucidated. This will be the first study to determine the effects of tDCS on whole and regional brain activity in PwMS with neuropathic pain to identify potential mechanisms of the analgesic effects of tDCS. These findings will provide targets for future studies investigating different stimulation areas, possible short- and long-term side effects, and specific target areas for other precise stimulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Randomized study of autologous un-manipulated peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) comparing two regimens: (1) cyclophosphamide and rabbit anti-thymoglobulin (rATG) versus (2) cyclophosphamide, rATG, and Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg).

The primary objective of this study is to determine if monthly pulse doses of a three-day course ACTH (H.P. Acthar®) is more effective at recovering myelin at 12 months, as measured by myelin water fraction (MWF), in new multiple sclerosis lesions as compared to one course of treatment. The main secondary objective is to utilize every three month MWF measurements to determine the peak time of remyelination in new multiple sclerosis lesions when followed over the course of 12 months.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether MS patients who receive Oral mitoquinone (MitoQ) have less fatigue than those receiving a placebo. A comparison between patient's fatigue scored at baseline and fatigue scored 12 weeks after study drug initiation will assess if MitoQ has a significant change in fatigue.

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that at least one dose (0.5 mg followed by 0.25 mg) of fingolimod is superior to glatiramer acetate 20 mg SC in reducing the ARR up to 12 months in patients with relapsing-remitting MS

In the MOVING study should be examined, whether early therapeutic intervention with fingolimod (Gilenya ®) after optic neuritis(ON) has a favorable visual outcome as a comparative therapie with Interferon beta-1b (Extavia®), as measured by multifocal visual evoked potentials (mVEP) after 6 month compared to baseline.