Table 2.
Adverse event | All patients (N = 199) |
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Any treatment-emergent AE | 189 (95.0) |
Treatment-emergent serious AEa | 35 (17.6) |
Treatment-emergent AE leading to permanent treatment discontinuation | 1 (0.5) |
Deathb | 4 (2.0) |
AE: adverse event.
Data are n (%) of patients.
One myocardial infarction occurred approximately 8 months after the first alemtuzumab course and no strokes or arterial dissections were reported.
Causes of death were unknown (n = 1); suicide (n = 1); severe acute kidney injury, febrile neutropenia, metabolic encephalopathy, and pancytopenia 14 months after starting treatment with alemtuzumab (n = 1; pancytopenia was deemed related to alemtuzumab treatment by the investigator); and multiple sclerosis complications 20 months after starting treatment with alemtuzumab (n = 1; deemed unrelated to alemtuzumab treatment by the investigator).