Reldesemtiv in Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy: a Phase 2 Hypothesis-Generating Study

Elsevier BV - Tập 18 - Trang 1127-1136 - 2021
Stacy A. Rudnicki1, Jinsy A. Andrews1,2, Tina Duong3, Bettina M. Cockroft1,4, Fady I. Malik1, Lisa Meng1, Jenny Wei1, Andrew A. Wolff1, Angela Genge5, Nicholas E. Johnson6, Carolina Tesi-Rocha3, Anne M. Connolly7,8, Basil T. Darras9, Kevin Felice10, Richard S. Finkel11,12, Perry B. Shieh13, Jean K. Mah14, Jeffrey Statland15, Craig Campbell16, Ali A. Habib17, Nancy L. Kuntz18, Maryam Oskoui19, John W. Day3
1Cytokinetics, Incorporated, South San Francisco, USA
2Columbia University, New York, USA
3Stanford University, Stanford, USA
4Sangamo Therapeutics, Brisbane, USA
5Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada
6Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
7Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, USA
8Washington University, St. Louis, USA
9Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
10Hospital for Special Care, New Britain, USA
11Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando, USA
12St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
13University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
14University of Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Canada
15University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
16Department of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Canada
17University of California, Irvine, USA
18Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, USA
19McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, Canada

Tóm tắt

This phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled, hypothesis-generating study evaluated the effects of oral reldesemtiv, a fast skeletal muscle troponin activator, in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Patients ≥ 12 years of age with type II, III, or IV SMA were randomized into 2 sequential, ascending reldesemtiv dosing cohorts (cohort 1: 150 mg bid or placebo [2:1]; cohort 2: 450 mg bid or placebo [2:1]). The primary objective was to determine potential pharmacodynamic effects of reldesemtiv on 8 outcome measures in SMA, including 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) and maximum expiratory pressure (MEP). Changes from baseline to weeks 4 and 8 were determined. Pharmacokinetics and safety were also evaluated. Patients were randomized to reldesemtiv 150 mg, 450 mg, or placebo (24, 20, and 26, respectively). The change from baseline in 6MWD was greater for reldesemtiv 450 mg than for placebo at weeks 4 and 8 (least squares [LS] mean difference, 35.6 m [p = 0.0037] and 24.9 m [p = 0.058], respectively). Changes from baseline in MEP at week 8 on reldesemtiv 150 and 450 mg were significantly greater than those on placebo (LS mean differences, 11.7 [p = 0.038] and 13.2 cm H2O [p = 0.03], respectively). For 6MWD and MEP, significant changes from placebo were seen in the highest reldesemtiv peak plasma concentration quartile (Cmax > 3.29 μg/mL; LS mean differences, 43.3 m [p = 0.010] and 28.8 cm H2O [p = 0.0002], respectively). Both dose levels of reldesemtiv were well tolerated. Results suggest reldesemtiv may offer clinical benefit and support evaluation in larger SMA patient populations.

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