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Filter by:Primary Objective: To evaluate the effect of one-year Alglucosidase alfa treatment on motor function [Six-minute walk test (6MWT) and lung function predicted Forced vital capacity (FVC)] among Chinese Late Onset Pompe Disease patients above 5 years old. To evaluate the safety of Myozyme 20mg/kg, IV biweekly in Chinese LOPD patients above 3 years old. Secondary Objective: To evaluate the effect of one-year treatment with Alglucosidase alfa on improvement of manual muscle test (MMT), Maximal inspiratory and expiratory pressure (MIP and MEP)], Quick Motor Function Test scores, and health-related quality of life (SF-12) among LOPD patients over 5 years old.
Given the 100 fold increase of the incidence of Pompe's disease in Western French Guiana, the objective of the present study is to implement systematic screening in newborns in French Guiana in order to start treatment before the muscular and cardiac symptoms appear.
Given the high incidence of Pompe's Disease in French Guiana (100 times higher than in mainland France) the aim is to determine the prevalence of heterozygotes among women having just delivered in French Guiana who accepted that their newborn child enters the depipomp1 study. In these women the specific mutations p.Gly648Ser and p.Arg854X will be sought using PCR in order to calculate the prevalence of these mutations and estimate the risk factors associated with them in order to improve genetic counselling.
Pompe's disease is a very rare condition which causes weakness of the respiratory muscles and may therefore cause symptoms of breathlessness or even respiratory failure, requiring the use of a ventilator at night. Recently a treatment for this condition has become available as well as a simple diagnostic test. However, we believe it is possible that there are patients with this condition who are presently undiagnosed attending respiratory clinics. We would like to complete an observational study of patients with respiratory muscle weakness of an unknown cause, who are attending respiratory clinics at two London centres, to determine whether patients attending these services have undiagnosed Pompe's disease.
An international consensual group recommends confirming the diagnosis of the Pompe disease after a dried blood spot (DBS) with a dosage of the enzymatic activity in other tissue. This strategy is currently used in the usual practice. The aim is evaluate the prevalence of the Pompe disease among patients with progressive limb girdle muscular weakness and/or axial deficiency, and/or respiratory insufficiency. The diagnosis will be confirmed using DBS.