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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Early Development of Spinal Deformities in Children Severely Affected with Spinal Muscular Atrophy after Gene Therapy with Onasemnogene Abeparvovec-Preliminary Results.

Venla Soini, Gudrun Schreiber, Bernd Wilken, Anna Kathrin Hell

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. A systematic review of immunosuppressive protocols used in AAV gene therapy for monogenic disorders.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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  5. Scoliosis in spinal muscular atrophy in the era of disease-modifying therapy: a scoping review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  6. What's new in the pediatric spine?Journal of children's orthopaedics · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Venla SoiniPaediatric Orthopaedics, Department of Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7660-3076
Gudrun SchreiberDepartment of Pediatric Neurology, Social Pediatric Center, Medical Center Kassel, 34127 Kassel, Germany.ORCID 0009-0000-2871-0360
Bernd WilkenDepartment of Pediatric Neurology, Social Pediatric Center, Medical Center Kassel, 34127 Kassel, Germany.
Anna Kathrin HellPaediatric Orthopaedics, Department of Trauma, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6655-7130
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen · DEUniversity of Turku · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic disorder, with the most common form being 5q SMA. Survival of children with severe SMA is poor, yet major advances have been made in recent years in pharmaceutical treatment, such as gene-therapy, which has improved patient survival. Therefore, clinical problems, such as the development of spinal deformities in these genetically treated SMA children represent an unknown challenge in clinical work. In a retrospective case series, the development of spinal deformities was analyzed in 16 SMA children (9 male, 7 female) treated with onasemnogene abeparvovec in two institutions during the years 2020 to 2022. Ten out of sixteen patients had a significant kyphosis, and nine out of sixteen patients had significant scoliosis, with the mean curvature angles of 24 ± 27° for scoliosis, and 69 ± 15° for kyphosis. Based on these preliminary data, it can be assumed that early-onset kyphosis presents a clinical challenge in gene-therapy-treated SMA children. Larger datasets with longer follow-up times need to be collected in order to verify these preliminary observations.

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gene therapykyphosisscoliosisspinal muscular atrophy

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