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The biotechnology company Sarepta Therapeutics has decided to suspend entirely one of its treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) just days after it refused a request from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pull the drug from the market.
The agency also revoked Sarepta's platform technology designation for AAVrh74 Friday and issued a safety communication saying the agency was investigating the three deaths due to acute liver failure following treatment with Sarepta's AAVrh74 gene therapies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational gene therapy trials for limb girdle muscular dystrophy following three patient deaths potentially linked to the company's treatments.
The Sarepta saga continues, with the FDA slapping a clinical hold across all of the company’s investigational limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) trials, while also revoking the biopharma’s gene therapy platform technology designation.
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MedPage Today on MSNDuchenne Gene Therapy Will Undergo Changes After Patient DeathsAt the FDA's request, delandistrogene moxeparvovec (Elevidys), the only approved gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, will carry a black box warning for acute liver injury and acute liver failure,
As mothers of children with this disease, we have wept helplessly in recent months as friends — fellow members of a club we never asked to join — said goodbye to their sons, the babies they once held in their arms, whose dreams they held in their hearts until Duchenne robbed them of working muscles or a healthy future.
The first patient has been dosed in a clinical trial testing Sardocor's one-time gene therapy for cardiomyopathy associated with Duchenne MD.