Improved upper limb function in non-ambulant children with SMA type 2 and 3 during nusinersen treatment: a prospective 3-years SMArtCARE registry study

Abstract Background The development and approval of disease modifying treatments have dramatically changed disease progression in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Nusinersen was approved in Europe in 2017 for the treatment of SMA patients irrespective of age and disease severity. Most da...

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Main Authors: Astrid Pechmann, Max Behrens, Katharina Dörnbrack, Adrian Tassoni, Franziska Wenzel, Sabine Stein, Sibylle Vogt, Daniela Zöller, Günther Bernert, Tim Hagenacker, Ulrike Schara-Schmidt, Maggie C. Walter, Astrid Bertsche, Katharina Vill, Matthias Baumann, Manuela Baumgartner, Isabell Cordts, Astrid Eisenkölbl, Marina Flotats-Bastardas, Johannes Friese, René Günther, Andreas Hahn, Veronka Horber, Ralf A. Husain, Sabine Illsinger, Jörg Jahnel, Jessika Johannsen, Cornelia Köhler, Heike Kölbel, Monika Müller, Arpad von Moers, Annette Schwerin-Nagel, Christof Reihle, Kurt Schlachter, Gudrun Schreiber, Oliver Schwartz, Martin Smitka, Elisabeth Steiner, Regina Trollmann, Markus Weiler, Claudia Weiß, Gert Wiegand, Ekkehard Wilichowski, Andreas Ziegler, Hanns Lochmüller, Janbernd Kirschner, SMArtCARE study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-10-01
Series:Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-022-02547-8