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The aim of the research is to investigate the safety and efficacy of EPI-743 treatment in patients with Cbl-C defect and related visual and neurological impairment. Primary Endpoints will be the improvement in visual function as assessed by visual acuity and eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity. Secondary Endpoints will be the improvement in neurologic function, evaluated by a battery of age-appropriated psychophysical tests, and/or in objective electrophysiological tests such as Visual Evoked potentials (VEP) and Electroretinogram (ERG) and/or the change in serum markers of redox state.


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Cobalamin C (Cbl-C) defect is the most common inborn error of cobalamin metabolism causing methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria. Cbl-Cdefect is due to impaired activity of MMACHC, a cobalamin trafficking protein, involved in the decyanation of cyanocobalamin as well as in the dealkylation of alkylcobalamins through a glutathione transferase activity. Despite pharmacological treatment with hydroxycobalamin, betaine, folic acid, (and carnitine), long-term outcome in early-onset patients is in most cases unsatisfactory with progression of visual and neurological impairment, mainly expressed in the form of retinal degeneration and/or maculopathy. Moreover, despite some hypotheses have been proposed, the pathophysiological mechanism causing progressive eye and brain damage still remains unclear. Recently, the contribution of oxidative stress has been hypothesized based on in vitro studies showing in Cbl-C fibroblasts a significant increase of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and in vivo studies documenting severe alteration of glutathione species, the main cellular redox buffer.

EPI-743 is a small molecule therapeutic that has demonstrated beneficial effects in diseases characterized by oxidative stress and alterations in glutathione redox balance including Leigh syndrome and other inherited respiratory chain diseases.

Based on the principle that Cbl-C defect causes both in vivo and in vitro perturbations of redox state, the aim of our study is to verify the potential beneficial effects of EPI-743 in preventing/reducing progression of neurological and visual signs, as well as in ameliorating redox abnormalities in Cbl-C patients, in combination with standard therapy.

Primary Endpoints will include the improvement in visual function as assessed by visual acuity and eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity. Secondary Endpoints will be improvement in neurologic function, evaluated by a battery of age-appropriated psychophysical tests, and/or in objective electrophysiological tests such as VEP and ERG, and/or the change in serum markers of redox state. Patient's and parental Quality of life will be regularly assessed prior of treatment start and periodically while on EPI-743. ;


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NCT number NCT01793090
Study type Interventional
Source Bambino Gesù Hospital and Research Institute
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 2
Start date January 2013
Completion date February 2017

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