[HTML][HTML] Advances in treatment of spinal muscular atrophy–new phenotypes, new challenges, new implications for care

DC Schorling, A Pechmann… - Journal of …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is caused by autosomal recessive mutations in
SMN1 and results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle weakness. The …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosis and management of spinal muscular atrophy: Part 2: Pulmonary and acute care; medications, supplements and immunizations; other organ …

RS Finkel, E Mercuri, OH Meyer, AK Simonds… - Neuromuscular …, 2018 - Elsevier
This is the second half of a two-part document updating the standard of care
recommendations for spinal muscular atrophy published in 2007. This part includes updated …

Splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic drugs

MA Havens, ML Hastings - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) are short, synthetic, antisense, modified nucleic
acids that base-pair with a pre-mRNA and disrupt the normal splicing repertoire of the …

Emerging therapies and challenges in spinal muscular atrophy

MA Farrar, SB Park, S Vucic, KA Carey… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease with severity
ranging from progressive infantile paralysis and premature death (type I) to limited motor …

Nusinersen treatment of spinal muscular atrophy: current knowledge and existing gaps

T Gidaro, L Servais - Developmental Medicine & Child …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a recessive disorder caused by a mutation in the survival
motor neuron 1 gene (SMN 1); it affects 1 in 11 000 newborn infants. The most severe and …

Muscle strength and motor function throughout life in a cross‐sectional cohort of 180 patients with spinal muscular atrophy types 1c–4

RI Wadman, CA Wijngaarde, M Stam… - European journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Natural history studies in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have
primarily focused on infants and children. Natural history studies encompassing all age …

[HTML][HTML] Prospective and longitudinal natural history study of patients with Type 2 and 3 spinal muscular atrophy: Baseline data NatHis-SMA study

A Chabanon, AM Seferian, A Daron, Y Péréon… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a monogenic disorder caused by loss of function
mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 gene, which results in a broad range of disease …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical trial and postmarketing safety of onasemnogene abeparvovec therapy

JW Day, JR Mendell, E Mercuri, RS Finkel, KA Strauss… - Drug safety, 2021 - Springer
Introduction This is the first description of safety data for intravenous onasemnogene
abeparvovec, the only approved systemically administered gene-replacement therapy for …