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Filter by:The cardiac variant of the Fabry disease is a rare cardiomyopathy affecting 1/50000 individuals in general population. It is generally diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease, because it presents clinical features very similar to the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ones, making difficult the correct diagnosis. In Fabry disease there is a remodeling process of the myocardial interstitium and apoptosis of myocytes which leads to fibrosis development and later systolic dysfunction. The investigators propose to evaluate the utility of several biomarkers in the diagnosis of this cardiomyopathy, to facilitate the early diagnosis, which is clue to establish early enzyme replacement therapy or intensify the patients' follow up. In order to achieve this objective, the investigators will analyze markers of endothelial dysfunction, fibrosis and apoptosis in peripheral blood samples of patients carrying the mutation but without clinical manifestations and the investigators will compare their levels with dose obtained from two different control groups: diagnosed patients presenting clinical manifestations or index cases and healthy controls without carrying the mutation.
Primary objective and endpoint is the analysis of the long-term course of lyso-Gb3 and its clinical correlation to the progression of the cardiomyopathy in N215S-Fabry patients.
Fabry disease is a rare genetic disease characterized by an enzyme deficiency, called alpha-galactosidase A, which normally breaks down a lipid, is missing or does not function properly. As a result, the lipid accumulates in the body, this leads to multisystem impairment, including progressive renal failure. Several studies have focused on the detection of this disease in end-stage renal failure patients, transplant or hemodialysis. This study aims to diagnose the Fabry patients earlier, among men aged 18-60 years with a glomerular filtration rate estimated by MDRD between 60 and 15 ml/min/1, 73m2, or between 90 and 60 ml/min/1, 73m2 in association with proteinuria greater than 0.3 g / g or creatinine level greater than 0,5 g/l. This screening will be conducted by a blood test to measure the level of alpha-galactosidase A activity by micromethod from samples taken from blood spots on filter paper. If this assay was positive, confirmation of diagnosis of Fabry disease will done the standard method: macrodosage of leukocytic alpha-galactosidase A activity. This multicenter prospective study, openly contacted in medical practice, with patient follow-up corresponding to the management of renal insufficiency, will be offered to all departments of nephrology and dialysis for adults in the Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur. The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence of Fabry disease in the target population and to identify previously undiagnosed patients, enabling them to benefit from appropriate management of their disease, including whether need enzyme replacement therapy.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety of Replagal in children with Fabry disease who who have not previously been treated with enzyme replacement therapy (ERT).
The purpose of this study is to proof increasing patient satisfaction and preservation of quality of life in patients with Morbus Fabry disease receiving their Enzyme Replacement Therapy with Replagal (Agalsidase alfa) at home compared to receiving the infusions at the clinic or at doctor's practice.
When to start children with Fabry disease on therapy is controversial because of its expense and inconvenience. Many Fabry children complain of exercise intolerance. In adults, the investigators have found decreased lung function and ability to exercise on a treadmill. Whether or not lung function and exercise capacity is abnormal in children is unknown. While lung function and exercise tests are commonly part of routine evaluations for adults with Fabry, they are not yet for children. The objective of the proposed study is to more accurately define the lung and exercise abnormalities in a group of 20 boys from 8-18 years of age with Fabry disease who have not been treated with enzyme replacement therapy (Fabrazyme).
This study is designed to evaluate safety and PK/PD in Canadian Fabry patients.
The purpose of this study is to observe the safety of agalsidase alfa in Canadian patients with Fabry disease.
The purpose of this study is to assess whether patients with the classic form of Fabry disease have significantly less androgenic alopecia (male pattern baldness).
The association of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Fabry disease is known from own clinical experiences as well as from case reports in the literature, where symptoms and suspicious results in the brain MRI led to the misdiagnosis of Fabry patients as MS. Remarkably, those patients almost never showed oligoclonal bands or an intrathecally derived IgG-production was wrongly assumed due to misinterpretation of CSF results. Where oligoclonal bands were present, concomitant diagnoses had to be discussed. Furthermore, those patients showed no involvement of the spinal cord, as evidenced by MRI. Beside the possible complications of a not-effective and not-necessary MS therapy, those patients are at risk of irreparable organ damage due to the delayed implementation of enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease.