UK – NICE recommends Chiesi’s Elfabrio for adults with Fabry disease

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended Chiesi’s Elfabrio (pegunigalsidase alfa) as a long-term option for treating Fabry disease in adults in England and Wales.

The NICE committee concluded that the treatment would be an additional ERT for patients with and without an amenable mutation and was a relevant comparator to existing treatments.

Elfabrio is a novel enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) that is administered via intravenous infusion every two weeks. The treatment works to deliver a modified version of the enzyme a-galactosidase for those with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease.

The recommendation was based on results from phase 3 clinical trials, which showed that Elfabrio was generally well tolerated and was similarly clinically effective and as tolerable as the current treatments, agalsidase alfa and migalastat, used in the NHS…