Treatment with Onpattro (patisiran) for 1.5 years leads to sustained reductions in disability progression among people with ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), or damage to the heart. That’s according to interim data from the ongoing open-label extension (OLE) portion of the Phase 3 APOLLO-B clinical trial (NCT03997383). That…
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The prevalence of familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) in Taiwan in recent years is consistent with other mid-to-high prevalence countries, but survival rates are lower than in other nations, according to a recent study. From 2008-2020, FAP prevalence, or the total number of people living with the disease, in Taiwan ranged…
Onpattro (patisiran), a liver-directed gene-silencing therapy, successfully slowed progression of symptoms that emerged in two brothers with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR) decades after their disease was stabilized by liver transplants, a study showed. In the reemergence of disease symptoms, the brothers showed also brain and eye problems that were…
Intellia Therapeutics is planning to launch pivotal clinical trials of its gene-editing therapy NTLA-2001 in people with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) and ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). A pivotal trial is one where the data are expected to support an application for a therapy’s regulatory approval. Intellia is…
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