An immune tolerance approach using transient low-dose methotrexate in the ERT-naïve setting of patients treated with a therapeutic protein: experience in infantile-onset Pompe disease.
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PURPOSE: To investigate immune tolerance induction with transient low-dose methotrexate (TLD-MTX) initiated with recombinant human acid α-glucosidase (rhGAA), in treatment-naïve cross-reactive immunologic material (CRIM)-positive infantile-onset Pompe disease (IOPD) patients. METHODS: Newly diagnosed IOPD patients received subcutaneous or oral 0.4 mg/kg TLD-MTX for 3 cycles (3 doses/cycle) with the first 3 rhGAA infusions. Anti-rhGAA IgG titers, classified as high-sustained (HSAT; ≥51,200, ≥2 times after 6 months), sustained intermediate (SIT; ≥12,800 and <51,200 within 12 months), or low (LT; ≤6400 within 12 months), were compared with those of 37 CRIM-positive IOPD historic comparators receiving rhGAA alone. RESULTS: Fourteen IOPD TLD-MTX recipients at the median age of 3.8 months (range, 0.7-13.5 months) had a median last titer of 150 (range, 0-51,200) at median rhGAA duration ~83 weeks (range, 36-122 weeks). One IOPD patient (7.1%) developed titers in the SIT range and one patient (7.1%) developed titers in the HSAT range. Twelve of the 14 patients (85.7%) that received TLD-MTX remained LT, versus 5/37 HSAT (peak 51,200-409,600), 7/37 SIT (12,800-51,000), and 23/37 LT (200-12,800) among comparators. CONCLUSION: Results of TLD-MTX coinitiated with rhGAA are encouraging and merit a larger longitudinal study.
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Cited Authors
- Kazi, ZB; Desai, AK; Troxler, RB; Kronn, D; Packman, S; Sabbadini, M; Rizzo, WB; Scherer, K; Abdul-Rahman, O; Tanpaiboon, P; Nampoothiri, S; Gupta, N; Feigenbaum, A; Niyazov, DM; Sherry, L; Segel, R; McVie-Wylie, A; Sung, C; Joseph, AM; Richards, S; Kishnani, PS
Published Date
- April 2019
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 21 / 4
Start / End Page
- 887 - 895
PubMed ID
- 30214072
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC6417984
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1530-0366
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1038/s41436-018-0270-7
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States