Kuvan® in Phenylketonuria Patients Less Than 4 Years Old

Summary

This is a Phase 3b, multicenter, open-label, randomized, controlled study to evaluate efficacy, safety and population pharmacokinetics of sapropterin dihydrochloride (Kuvan®) in less than 4 year-old infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU).

Timeline

Start

2011-06

Primary completion

2014-07

Completion

2017-02-17

Publications

• Muntau AC, Burlina A, Eyskens F, Freisinger P, Leuzzi V, Sivri HS, Gramer G, Pazdirkova R, Cleary M, Lotz-Havla AS, Lane P, Alvarez I, Rutsch F. Long-term efficacy and safety of sapropterin in patients who initiated sapropterin at < 4 years of age with phenylketonuria: results of the 3-year extension of the SPARK open-label, multicentre, randomised phase IIIb trial. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2021 Aug 3;16(1):341. doi: 10.1186/s13023-021-01968-1.
• Muntau AC, Burlina A, Eyskens F, Freisinger P, De Laet C, Leuzzi V, Rutsch F, Sivri HS, Vijay S, Bal MO, Gramer G, Pazdirkova R, Cleary M, Lotz-Havla AS, Munafo A, Mould DR, Moreau-Stucker F, Rogoff D. Efficacy, safety and population pharmacokinetics of sapropterin in PKU patients <4 years: results from the SPARK open-label, multicentre, randomized phase IIIb trial. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2017 Mar 9;12(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s13023-017-0600-x.

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