The purpose of this study is to understand the patient profile, utilized treatments, treatment patterns, resulting outcomes, and associated costs relating to luspatercept treatment in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (LR-MDS) or beta-thalassemia in the real-world setting
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
30
According to the product label
ZEG Berlin, Center for Epidemiology and Health Research
Berlin, Germany
Participant age
Time frame: Baseline
Participant gender
Time frame: Baseline
Year of first luspatercept prescription
Time frame: Baseline
Number of participants by Ring Sideroblast (RS) status (positive/negative/unknown) as measured by bone marrow aspiration
As documented in participant medical charts
Time frame: Baseline
Participant comorbidities
Time frame: Baseline
Length of follow-up from start of luspatercept treatment initiation until the earliest of the end of continuous enrolment, death, or end of data availability
Time frame: Baseline
Number of participants that achieve red blood cell (RBC) transfusion independence
Number of participants in Cohort 1 achieving RBC transfusion independence, defined as no RBC transfusions during any consecutive 56-day (8-week) or 84-day (12-week) period within the first 168 days (24 weeks) after the index date, as assessed from transfusion records and medical chart review.
Time frame: Up to 12 months
Total number of RBC units transfused per participant, as assessed from transfusion records and medical chart review, from baseline up to 6 months
Time frame: Baseline and up to 6 months
Time to acute myeloid leukemia transformation
Time frame: Up to 6 months
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Time to treatment discontinuation
Time frame: Up to 6 months