Novartis To Alert EU Doctors About Liver Failure Deaths In Zolgensma Patients

The European Medicines Agency’s pharmacovigilance committee has reviewed the updated advice that EU prescribers will get on enhanced monitoring of spinal muscular atrophy patients treated with Zolgensma following fatal cases of acute liver failure.

 Expensive medicine in the world. Onasemnogene Abeparvovec-Xioi Zolgensma, sold under the brand name Zolgensma with several syringes.
Zolgensma Is Given As A One-Time Infusion To SMA Patients • Source: Shutterstock

Novartis will soon be writing to EU doctors to inform them about two recent fatal cases of acute liver failure in spinal muscular atrophy patients following treatment with Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec), the company’s one-time gene therapy for children with SMA.

The contents of Novartis’ letter, to be issued as a “direct healthcare professional communication” (DHPC), were reviewed by European...

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