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Filter by:In the shared decision-making process, patients should express their expectations and preferences regarding treatment to the physician. A specific questionnaire addressing needs and expectations of Fabry patients has been built at the initiative of Amicus. In addition, this questionnaire also evaluates the benefit of treatment from the patient's perspective. Nothing is known until now on patient's expectations, potential clustering of patients regarding their expectations and evaluation of treatment benefit from the patients perspective. Study objectives are differentiated according to the study phase (inclusion and follow-up). At inclusion, the primary objective is to cluster patients according to their needs and expectations regarding treatment. During follow-up, the primary objective is to evaluate treatment benefit in relation with patients needs and expectations.
The current approved treatment for Fabry disease is enzyme replacement therapy (ERT). There are actually 2 products in this therapeutic class available: Replagal® (agalsidase alfa) and Fabrazyme® (agalsidase beta). Both are indicated for long-term treatment in patients with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease (alfa-galactosidase A deficiency). Both have been commercially available in Europe for almost 10 years, yet little information is available about the clinical and safety profile of patients who switch from one therapy to the other. An extended shortage of Fabrazyme® that began in June 2009 has necessitated that a large number of patients switch from Fabrazyme® to Replagal®. This offers the possibility to study the clinical status and adverse events in patients who switch from Fabrazyme® to Replagal® on a large-scale basis. In addition, as a result of the increasing Fabrazyme® shortage, many of these patients received a reduced dosage of Fabrazyme® for an extended period before transitioning to treatment with Replagal®.