- Women and girls who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant or are unwilling to practice birth control. Rituximab is in pregnancy class C: no systematic evidence of safety. In humans, cyclosporine crosses the placenta. Cyclosporine lacks genotoxic effects in human and animal studies. However, growth restriction and prematurity occur in up to 40% of neonates born to mothers with organ transplants who are treated with cyclosporine, but no congenital abnormalities have been documented.