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ArticleOrphanet journal of rare diseases2025

Impact of enzyme replacement therapy and migalastat on disease progression in females with fabry disease.

Malte Lenders, Albina Nowak, Markus Cybulla, Jessica Kaufeld, Anja Friederike Köhn, Nicole Maria Muschol, Christine Kurschat, Eva Brand

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Article in Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. A multigenerational fabry disease case caused by aJournal of family medicine and primary care · 2026
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  6. Fabry Disease: A Focus on the Role of Oxidative Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  9. Progress and Challenges in the Treatment of Fabry Disease.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Malte LendersDepartment of Internal Medicine D, and Interdisciplinary Fabry Center (IFAZ), University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Albina NowakDepartment of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Zuerich and University of Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland.
Markus CybullaDepartment of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Nephrologicum-MGL MVZ, Muellheim, Germany.
Jessica KaufeldDepartment of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Anja Friederike KöhnInternational Center for Lysosomal disorders (ICLD), Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Nicole Maria MuscholInternational Center for Lysosomal disorders (ICLD), Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Christine KurschatDepartment II of Internal Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne and Center for Rare Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Eva BrandDepartment of Internal Medicine D, and Interdisciplinary Fabry Center (IFAZ), University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany. Eva.Brand@ukmuenster.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-3243-5508

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThe aim of our multicenter study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) and chaperone therapy on the disease progression in female Fabry disease (FD) patients and to compare the individual treatment regimens.

methodsData from 3 consecutive visits of 102 female FD patients from 6 Fabry centers were retrospectively analyzed. According to their FD-specific treatment, patients were separated in 5 groups: Newly agalsidase-beta- [n = 18], agalsidase-alfa- [n = 29] and migalastat-[n = 14] treated patients, and long-term agalsidase-beta- [n = 7] and agalsidase-alfa-[n = 34] treated patients. Clinical presentation and laboratory data, including plasma lyso-Gb

resultsTreatment with agalsidase-beta, agalsidase-alfa, and migalastat was safe and severe adverse events were rare. Newly and long-term-treated patients presented a stable disease course over time. None of the patients required hospitalization due to cardiac events. Overall septum thickness remained stable in all groups (p > 0.05). Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) only slightly decreased in patients treated with agalsidase-alfa [newly- and long-term-treated: -1.5 ± 3.2 and - 1.3 ± 3.9 ml/min/1.73 m²/year; p = 0.0056 and p = 0.0187, respectively] but the decrease was in the range of natural eGFR decline. eGFRs in agalsidase-beta and migalastat-treated patients were stable. No clinically relevant differences concerning treatment efficacy between agalasidase-beta, agalsidase-alfa, and migalastat were detected.

conclusionWe conclude that treatment of females with agalsidase-beta, agalsidase-alfa, and migalastat was safe. Independent of the chosen treatment regimen, nearly all patients presented with a stable disease course over time. In our cohort, a comparison of therapy efficacies showed no relevant clinical differences between the groups.

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1-Deoxynojirimycinalpha-GalactosidaseEnzyme Replacement TherapyFabry DiseaseAdolescentAdultAgedDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansIsoenzymesMiddle AgedRecombinant ProteinsRetrospective StudiesYoung Adult1-Deoxynojirimycinagalsidase alfaagalsidase betaalpha-GalactosidaseIsoenzymesmigalastatRecombinant ProteinsDisease progressionEnzyme replacement therapyFabry diseaseFemalesMigalastat

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PMID39980015
PMCPMC11843741

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