New treatments in spinal muscular atrophy: positive results and new challenges

S Messina, M Sframeli - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common autosomal recessive diseases
with progressive weakness of skeletal and respiratory muscles, leading to significant …

Motor function in type 2 and 3 SMA patients treated with Nusinersen: a critical review and meta-analysis

G Coratti, C Cutrona, MC Pera, F Bovis… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background There is an increasing number of papers reporting the real world use of
Nusinersen in different cohorts of SMA patients. Main body The aim of this paper was to …

Onasemnogene abeparvovec for presymptomatic infants with three copies of SMN2 at risk for spinal muscular atrophy: the Phase III SPR1NT trial

KA Strauss, MA Farrar, F Muntoni, K Saito… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Most children with biallelic SMN1 deletions and three SMN2 copies develop spinal muscular
atrophy (SMA) type 2. SPR1NT (NCT03505099), a Phase III, multicenter, single-arm trial …

Fatal thrombotic microangiopathy case following adeno-associated viral SMN gene therapy

J Guillou, A De Pellegars, F Porcheret… - Blood …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies are highly promising, such as the
onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma) in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA). We report the …

Newborn screening programs for spinal muscular atrophy worldwide: Where we stand and where to go

T Dangouloff, E Vrščaj, L Servais, D Osredkar… - Neuromuscular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare and devastating disease. New disease-modifying
treatments have recently been approved and early treatment has been related to a better …

Biodistribution of onasemnogene abeparvovec DNA, mRNA and SMN protein in human tissue

G Thomsen, AHM Burghes, C Hsieh, J Do, BTT Chu… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease resulting
from survival motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1) deletion/mutation. Onasemnogene abeparvovec …

Childhood spinal muscular atrophy: controversies and challenges

E Mercuri, E Bertini, ST Iannaccone - The Lancet Neurology, 2012 - thelancet.com
Spinal muscular atrophy is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by degeneration
of motor neurons in the spinal cord and is caused by mutations of the survival of motor …

Spinal muscular atrophy

SJ Kolb, JT Kissel - Neurologic clinics, 2015 - neurologic.theclinics.com
The natural history of SMA is complex and variable. For this reason, clinical subgroups have
been defined based upon best motor function attainment during development. Type 1 SMA …

Systematic literature review of the economic burden of spinal muscular atrophy and economic evaluations of treatments

T Dangouloff, C Botty, C Beaudart, L Servais… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare and devastating condition for which
new disease-modifying treatments have recently been approved. Given the increasing …

Spinal muscular atrophy

S Nicolau, MA Waldrop, AM Connolly… - Seminars in pediatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common neuromuscular disorders of childhood
and has high morbidity and mortality. Three different disease-modifying treatments were …