Active clinical trials for "Glycogen Storage Disease Type II"

The Pompe Registry is a global, multicenter, international, longitudinal, observational, and voluntary program for patients with Pompe disease, designed to track the disease's natural history and outcomes in patients, both treated and not. Data from the Registry are also used to fulfill various global regulatory commitments, to support product development/reimbursement, and for other research and non-research related purposes. The objectives of the Registry are: To enhance understanding of the variability, progression, identification, and natural history of Pompe disease, with the ultimate goal of better guiding and assessing therapeutic intervention. To assist the Pompe medical community with the development of recommendations for monitoring patients, and to provide reports on patient outcomes, to optimize patient care. To characterize the Pompe disease population. To evaluate the long-term effectiveness of alglucosidase alfa.

This is a worldwide, descriptive safety study collecting data on women and their offspring exposed to avalglucosidase alfa during pregnancy and/or lactation, to assess the risks of avalglucsodiase alfa on pregnancy and maternal complications and adverse effects in the developing fetus, neonate, and infant. Outcomes in exposed infants, including growth and development, will be assessed through at least the first year of life. Data will be collected for approximately 10 years.

In the first part of this study, the aim is to characterize the molecular structure of wildtype GAA and, in particular, of mutated GAA variants with and without HSAT, in order to learn how mutation impairs uptake of GAA into the cell via the M6P receptor. In the second part of the study the aim is to learn to which epitopes antibodies bind and to which not. To accomplish this the investigators will synthesize and chemically modify the epitope peptides, in order to block effectively antibodies directed against the therapeutic enzyme.

The primary aim of this nationwide, explorative, cross-sectional study in Germany is to characterize the prevalence, severity and quality of musculoskeletal pain in adult patients with late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD). The secondary objectives are to evaluate whether muscle pain is associated with muscle function, to assess whether muscle pain is associated with alterations of muscle tissue, and whether vitamin D metabolism and polymorphisms of ACE and ACTN3 genes may contribute to an increased level of perceived musculoskeletal pain. In a second step, exome sequencing of genes associated with musculoskeletal pain will be analyzed. Results of LOPD patients will be compared to patients with neuromuscular disorders with a similar distribution of muscle weakness and/or musculoskeletal pain.

The purpose of this study is to better understand the long-term health effects of Pompe disease and to determine if there are any abnormal changes in the brain and peripheral nerves. Additionally, the investigators will study the relationship between the abnormal changes in brain, nervous system findings, and developmental outcomes. The investigators will collect clinical information from clinic visits as well as assessments such as neuroimaging (magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)), cognition, academic skills, speech and language function, physical therapy and quantitative muscle ultrasound. Subjects will be in this study for at least 3 years and up to 6 years.

Our aims are to investigate the acute and long term effect of ERT on exercise capacity; comparing the effect of different ERT dosages (as prescribed by the clinician according to clinical judgment) and assessing the relationship between enzyme blood level and exercise capacity. Such evaluation may allow a more objective quantification of the response to ERT.

Health related quality of life (HrQoL), is "the patient's subjective perception of the impact of his disease and its treatment on his daily life, physical, psychological and social functioning and well-being" and thus constitutes a patient reported outcome (PRO) of utmost importance. Generic HrQoL instruments can by definition not capture disease-specific parameters nor are they sensitive enough to detect their changes. In this study, a disease-specific HrQoL questionnaire for children and adolescents will be developed. Patients and parents will be involved in focus groups and interviews to identify relevant contents. The instrument will be tested for validity and reliability.

The project is a prospective study in which patients affected by adult-onset Pompe disease with c.-32-13T>G mutation in the GAA gene will be followed-up during two years to describe the natural history using clinical, imaging, histological and molecular parameters. Secondary objectives are: To identify biomarkers for assessing efficacy of future therapies based on correcting aberrant alternative splicing in Pompe patients with c.-32-13T>G mutations. To determine effectiveness of antisense oligonucleotide chemistries to restore full length GAA transcripts, GAA protein and GAA enzyme activity in fibroblasts and myoblasts obtained from skin and muscle biopsies as well as leucocytes of Pompe patients with c.-32-13T>G mutations.

Primary Objective: To describe the effect of routine practice with alglucosidase alfa in patients with IOPD ≤6 months of age, on invasive ventilation-free survival after 52 weeks of treatment. Secondary Objectives: To describe the effect of routine practice with alglucosidase alfa on invasive ventilation-free survival and survival at 12 and 18 months of age, as well as on change in left ventricular mass (LVM) Z score, Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) score, body weight, body length, and head circumference Z scores, and urinary glucose tetrasaccharide (Hex4), at Week 52 of treatment. To describe the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of alglucosidase alfa in the routine practice of IOPD treatment.

The project will use carbon-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy to assess whether high glycogen levels in skeletal muscle of patients with Glycogen Storage Diseases is a prelude for muscle damage. Patients with Glycogen Storage Diseases will be examined using carbon-13 MR-spectroscopy to quantify the glycogen levels in lumbar, thigh and calf-muscles. The pattern of glycogen concentration will be compared to the pattern of muscle atrophy found in the literature.