- General Drug Summary
- Description
- Miglustat is now the first and only approved therapy for patients with Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C). It has recently been approved for treatment of progressive neurological symptoms in adult and pediatric patients in the European Union, Brazil, and South Korea.
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- Enzyme Inhibitors
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- Summary In Neonatal Jaundice
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1 record(s) for Miglustat Effective in Maintaining Remission in Neonatal Jaundice.
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- 23146215
- Miglustat
- Effective in Maintaining Remission
- Case Report
- Summary
- Delay the expected deterioration of neurological function, and can effective seizure control Niemann-Pick disease type C.
- Use of miglustat in a child with late-infantile-onset Niemann-Pick disease type C and frequent seizures: a case report. Journal of medical case reports, 2012 [Go to PubMed]
- Niemann-Pick disease type C is a rare genetic lysosomal storage disease associated with impaired intracellular lipid trafficking and a range of progressive neurological manifestations. The influence of seizure activity on disease course and response to miglustat therapy is not currently clear.
Niemann-Pick disease type C homozygous for NPC1 mutation p.S940L [c. 2819 C>T] was diagnosed in a four-and-a-half-year-old Norwegian Caucasian girl. The patient, who died at eight years and seven months of age, had a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and subsequently displayed progressive neurological manifestations that started with delayed speech, ataxia, and gelastic cataplexy. A regimen of 100mg of miglustat three times a day was initiated when she was four years and 11 months old. She showed decreased neurological deterioration during about three and a half years of treatment. However, she displayed periods of distinct worsening that coincided with frequent epileptic seizures. Anti-epileptic therapy reduced seizure frequency and severity and allowed re-stabilization of her neurological function. Prior to her death, which was possibly due to acute cardiac arrest, seizure activity was well controlled.
Miglustat delayed the expected deterioration of neurological function in this patient with p.S940L-homozygous late-infantile-onset Niemann-Pick disease type C and provided important quality-of-life benefits. This case demonstrates the importance of effective seizure control therapy in achieving and maintaining neurological stabilization in Niemann-Pick disease type C.
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1 record(s) for Miglustat Effective in Inducing Remission in Neonatal Jaundice.
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- 23324478
- Miglustat
- Effective in Inducing Remission
- Review
- Summary
- For the treatment of progressive neurological symptoms in adult and pediatric patients with Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C).
- Disease and patient characteristics in NP-C patients: findings from an international disease registry. Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 2013 [Go to PubMed]
- Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a rare neurovisceral disease characterized by progressive neurodegeneration and premature death. We report data recorded at enrolment in an ongoing international NP-C registry initiated in September 2009 to describe disease natural history, clinical course and treatment experience of NP-C patients in clinical practice settings.
The NPC Registry is a prospective observational cohort study. Participating sites are encouraged to evaluate all consecutive patients with a confirmed diagnosis of NP-C, regardless of their treatment status. All patients undergo clinical assessments and medical care as determined by their physicians. Data are collected through a secure internet-based data collection system.
As of 19th March, 2012, 163 patients have been enrolled in centres across 14 European countries, Australia, Brazil and Canada. The mean (SD) age at enrolment was 19.6 (13.0) years. In general there was a long lag time between the mean (SD) age at neurological onset (10.9 (9.8) years) and age at diagnosis (15.0 (12.2) years). Among all enrolled patients, 107 were diagnosed based on combined genetic testing and filipin staining. Sixteen (11%) out of 145 patients with available age-at-neurological-onset data had early-infantile neurological onset, 45 (31%) had late-infantile onset; 45 (31%) had juvenile onset and 39 (27%) had adolescent/adult onset. The frequencies of neonatal jaundice, hepatomegaly and/or splenomegaly during infancy were greatest among early-infantile patients, and decreased with increasing age at neurological onset. The most frequent neurological manifestations were: ataxia (70%), vertical supranuclear gaze palsy (VSGP; 70%), dysarthria (66%), cognitive impairment (62%), dysphagia (52%). Ther were no notable differences in composite NP-C disability scores between age-at-neurological-onset groups. Miglustat therapy at enrolment was recorded in 117/163 (72%) patients.
Approximately two-thirds of this NP-C cohort had infantile or juvenile onset of neurological manifestations, while the remaining third presented in adolescence or adulthood. While systemic symptoms were most common among patients with early-childhood onset disease, they were also common among patients with adolescent/adult onset. The profiles of neurological manifestations in this Registry were in line with previous publications.