French Registry for Monitoring Pregnancies for Multiple Sclerosis

METHODOLOGY Prospective, observational, multicentric and national epidemiological study, within the scope of the OFSEP, including all groups of patients eligible to participate in the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaque (OFSEP) (definite MS, radiologically isolated syndromes, clinically isolated syndromes, neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and NMO spectrum disorders), with no age limit and an ongoing pregnancy. Women will be followed during pregnancy and in the year after and their children until 6 years of age.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS To be determined for each specific question. EXPECTED RESULTS Interactions between pregnancy and MS course have been well characterized before the therapeutic era. Neurologists and patients are lacking information to weigh benefits and risks of DMDs used immediately before or during pregnancy, including short and long-term risks to the mother and to the child, but also after delivery. This study should help provide better answers to those questions as well as to still controversial questions about locoregional analgesia and breastfeeding. By following these patients within the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaque (OFSEP) cohort, the investigator will also have access to a comprehensive description of MS before pregnancy but also in the long term.