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JOURNAL OF HUMAN LACTATION
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 233-236Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0890334414566237
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breastfeeding; breast milk; multiple sclerosis; natalizumab
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Natalizumab (Tysabri) is a recombinant humanized antibody to 4-integrin that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and Crohn disease. This is a case report of a 28-year-old woman with MS who was taking natalizumab (300 mg intravenously infused over 1 hour every 4 weeks) while breastfeeding her 11.5-month-old daughter 3 times a day. Breast milk samples were collected over a 50-day period after the patient's first drug infusion. The average concentration of natalizumab was 0.93 mu g/mL/d, and the relative infant dose was 1.74% of the weight-adjusted maternal dose. Transfer of natalizumab into human milk increased over time and with subsequent injections, with the highest concentration of 2.83 mu g/mL at day 50 with a relative infant dose of 5.3%. Because these data suggest continued accumulation of natalizumab in milk, and because we cannot provide an accurate assessment of levels of this drug at 24 weeks (steady state), we are unable to determine safety at this time.
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