Active clinical trials for "Gaucher Disease"

Background: In order to allow our satisfied patients, who have successfully completed 24 months of rapid intravenous infusion of Velaglucerase alfa (VPRIV), to continue with the 10 minutes IV therapy, the clinical trial framework must be extended; and this extension is important for the assessment of long term benefit (up to 5 years) of this regimen of administration of Velaglucerase alfa.. Suggested trial: An additional 36 months home therapy follow up of safety and efficacy of rapid intravenous infusion of Velaglucerase alfa (VPRIV) in adult patients with type 1 Gaucher disease. Patients must have completed the prior 4 parts / 24 months of the protocol before enrolling into this extension phase ("Part 5") and have provided a new consent before entering PART 5 of the study. Patients must not have experienced clinically significant AEs, including allergic reactions, in any of the prior study parts of this protocol to be eligible to participate, and have maintained stability in the key disease features. All infusions of 10' will be given in the context of home therapy. "Clinically significant" AEs will be determined by the PI using standard description of AEs as previously described at phase 3, and if necessary will support withdrawal of the patient from the study.

Ambroxol hydrochloride, an over-the-counter antitussive available in many markets , was identified as an interesting pharmacological chaperone. In addition to a mucolytic action, ambroxol has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Importantly, ambroxol therapy was found safe when given to pregnant women for prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome . Thus, ambroxol, an oral available drug on the market, may be a safe option for GD patients with potential disease-specific efficacy and should be expanded into a clinical trial using higher doses and placebo-controlled design. The investigators propose to start with a phase II study for patients with type 1 GD and suboptimal response to ERT. In addition the investigators plan to open an international registry of patients with GD currently receiving ambroxol (off study).

Gaucher disease is an inherited deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GCB) that leads to progressive accumulation of glucocerebroside within macrophages and subsequent tissue and organ damage; typically of the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and brain. The disease has been classified into 3 clinical subtypes based on the presence or absence of neurological symptoms and severity of neurological disease. Type 1 Gaucher disease affects an estimated 30,000 persons worldwide and is the most common. Type 1 Gaucher disease does not involve the central nervous system. Patients with type 2 Gaucher disease present with acute neurological deterioration, which leads to early death. Those with type 3 disease typically display a more sub-acute neurological course, with later onset and slower progression. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety of every other week dosing of velaglucerase alfa in Japanese patients with Gaucher disease. Velaglucerase alfa has been developed and approved as an enzyme replacement therapy for Type 1 Gaucher disease.

This study evaluated the safety and tolerability of afegostat tartrate in participants with type 1 Gaucher disease who were not receiving enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) or substrate reduction therapy (SRT).

Gaucher disease is a genetic disease that results in a deficiency of an enzyme acid beta-glucosidase, also known as glucocerebrosidase. This enzyme is needed to digest a substrate (lipid) called glucosylceramide and, to a lesser degree, glucosylsphingosine. In participants with Gaucher disease, the liver, spleen, bone marrow and brain show increases in lipid concentration, specifically in cells derived from the monocyte/macrophage system. Eliglustat tartrate (Genz-112638) is an oral drug that may regulate the Gaucher disease process by decreasing the synthesis of glucosylceramide. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics (PK) of eliglustat tartrate, administered as an oral dose of either 50 milligram (mg) twice daily (BID) or 100 mg BID, to men and women with Gaucher disease Type 1 for 52 weeks.

Gaucher disease, the most prevalent lysosomal storage disorder, is caused by mutations in the human glucocerebrosidase gene (GCD) leading to reduced activity of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase and thereby to the accumulation of substrate glucocerebroside (GlcCer) in the cells of the monocyte-macrophage system. This is the second trial to utilize a recombinant active form of lysosomal enzyme, glucocerebrosidase, (human prGCD) which is expressed and purified in a bioreactor system from transformed carrot plant root cell line.

This Phase 3 study was designed to confirm the efficacy and safety of eliglustat tartrate (Genz-112638) in participants with Gaucher disease type 1 who had reached therapeutic goals with enzyme replacement therapy (ERT).

This is a multi-center trial to further extend the assessment of the safety and efficacy of taliglucerase alfa in adult subjects (≥18 years old) with Gaucher disease who have enrolled in Protocol PB-06-003. Subjects will continue to receive an intravenous (IV) infusion of taliglucerase alfa every two weeks. The duration of treatment will be a maximum of 21 months or until taliglucerase alfa is commercially available to the subject at the discretion of the Sponsor.

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the efficacy of alendronate sodium in treating osteopenia (generalized bone density and focal bone lesions) in patients with Gaucher's disease.

During the past two years, the investigator has performed succsefully an IIR wherein patients with GD, previously treated with velaglucerase alfa ERT were gradually switched to a 10 minutes (rapid) administration of the same ERT. The success was expressed as safety (no clinically meaningful AEs, no antibodies detected, home therapy), efficacy ("lack of deterioration") and patients' satisfaction. The latter was based not just on specific questionnaires and analog scales, but particularly by the patients' sharing the experience with other patients and consequently repeated requests by many to switch to a rapid administration of their ERT. Therefore, the investigator is hereby proposing to investigate the safety and efficacy of a 10 minutes administration of velaglucerase alfa in a cohort of treatment-naive patients. The current VPRIV label is restricted to a dosage of 60 units/kg body weight every other week (60 units/kg EOW) - this dose will be used throughout the study period. The enzyme will be provided by Shire, which will also provide a research grant for the conduction of the trial.