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ReviewNature reviews. Endocrinology2025

International consensus guidelines on the implementation and monitoring of vosoritide therapy in individuals with achondroplasia.

Ravi Savarirayan, Julie Hoover-Fong, Keiichi Ozono, Philippe Backeljauw, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Kristen DeAndrade, Penny Ireland, Melita Irving, Juan Llerena Junior, Mohamad Maghnie and 6 more

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Review in Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Early closure of cranial base synchondroses in infants with Vosoritide-treated achondroplasia.Clinical pediatric endocrinology : case reports and clinical investigations : official journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology · 2026
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  8. Navepegritide in children with achondroplasia.Translational pediatrics · 2026
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  9. Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Ravi SavarirayanMurdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia. ravi.savarirayan@mcri.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5105-8427
Julie Hoover-FongGreenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasias, McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1242-5626
Keiichi OzonoCentre for Promoting Treatment of Intractable Diseases, ISEIKAI International General Hospital, Osaka, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6517-8825
Philippe BackeljauwCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Valérie Cormier-DaireUniversité Paris Cité, institut Imagine, Hôpital Necker Enfants maladies, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-9856
Kristen DeAndradeThe Little Legs Big Heart Foundation, West Palm Beach, FL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-6540-4028
Penny IrelandQueensland Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Melita IrvingGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Juan Llerena JuniorCentro de Genética Médica, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mohamad MaghniePaediatric Clinic, Endocrinology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-5238
Margaret MenzelAtlantic health system, Morristown, NJ, USA.
Nadia MerchantUT Southwestern Medical Center, Children's Health, Dallas, TX, USA.
Klaus MohnikeChildren's Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5113-8657
Susana Noval IruretagoyenaFundación ALPE Acondroplasia, Gijón, Spain.
Keita OkadaUniversity of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Svein Otto FredwallSunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Nesodden, Norway.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Achondroplasia is the most common genetic form of short-limbed skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism). Clinical manifestations and complications can affect individuals across the lifespan, including the need for adaptations for activities of daily living, which can affect quality of life. Current international guidelines focus on symptomatic management, with little discussion regarding potential medication, as therapeutic options were limited at the time of their publication. Vosoritide is the first pharmacological, precision treatment for achondroplasia; it was approved for use in 2021, creating a need for vosoritide treatment guidelines to support clinicians. An international collaborative of leading experts and patient advocates was formed to develop this Consensus Statement. The group developed the guideline scope and topics during a hybrid meeting in November 2023; guideline statements were subsequently ratified via Delphi methodology using a predefined consensus threshold. These statements provide recommendations across the treatment pathway, from starting treatment with vosoritide through ongoing monitoring and evaluation, to stopping vosoritide and ongoing monitoring following cessation. These guidelines recommend a minimum set of requirements and a practical framework for professionals and health services worldwide regarding the use of vosoritide to treat infants, children and young people with achondroplasia. This Consensus Statement is a supplement to already established consensus guidelines for management and care of individuals with achondroplasia.

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AchondroplasiaParathyroid HormoneHumansParathyroid Hormone

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