A long term safety study of amifampridine phosphate in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type 3.
This open-label outpatient extension study was designed to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of amifampridine in patients diagnosed with SMA Type 3. In addition, the evaluation of the effects of amifampridine on the QoL was performed. The study was planned to enroll those patients who had completed the SMA-001 study and after all final evaluations for that study had been completed, or those who demonstrated benefit after completing the dose titration period but failed to meet the randomization criteria on Day 0 of SMA-001. The duration of participation for each patient was expected to be at least 12 months as patients could continue in the study until amifampridine was approved by Regulatory Agencies or the clinical development of amifampridine was terminated for this indication. In addition to amifampridine, patients continued to receive previous concomitant medications, as needed.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
13
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Neurological Institute Carlo Besta
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Long-term Safety and Tolerability of Amifampridine
Number of subjects with treatment emergent adverse events (TEAE).
Time frame: 18 months
To Assess the Clinical Efficacy of Amifampridine Phosphate Over Time in Patients With SMA Type 3 Based on Changes in Quality of Life (QoL).
Quality of life (QoL): the Individualized Quality of Life for neuromuscular disease (INQoL) or the Pediatric Quality of Life (PEDSQLTM) was used for adult or pediatric patients, respectively. Since there were no pediatric patients, none of the patients completed the PEDSQL. The INQol evaluated weakness, pain, fatigue, double vision, muscle locking, droopy eyelids, swallowing difficulties, activities, social relationships, emotions and body image. Each of these areas were measured in four categories as follows: 1- Incidence (0= No, 1 =Yes), 2-Severity (0= None to 7 = extreme), 3- Impact - (0= None to 6 = extreme) and 4-Importance (0= None to 6 = extreme). The numbers were summative and are input to the QOL calculation, which is a percentage of severity on a scale of 0-100. The mean value was taken across this population. The higher scores were a worse outcome.
Time frame: Screening to end of study.
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