The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental Biologics License Application for Takeda’s lanadelumab-flyo (Takhzyro®) treatment to prevent hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks in children aged 2 to 11 years.
“Approval of the expanded indication of Takhzyro represents a significant step forward for the HAE community as it helps some of its youngest patients who are living with the disease to have a long-term prophylaxis treatment available to them,” said Julie Kim, president, US Business Unit and US country head at Takeda.
Previously, the only prophylactic therapy for children aged 6 to 11 years required every 3 to 4 day dosing, and there was no treatment available for children under 6. With lanadelumab, the recommended dose is 150 mg/1 mL injected once every 4 weeks in children 2 to 5 years old and every 2 weeks in those aged 6 to 11 years.
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Lanadelumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody therapy designed to reduce plasma kallikrein activity, thereby preventing HAE attacks. It can be self-administered by patients aged 12 or more years and can be injected subcutaneously by a caregiver who is trained by a health professional.
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The FDA’s approval is based on efficacy data from the phase 3 HELP trial as well as from the phase 3 SPRING study on pediatric patients with HAE. The study results showed that lanadelumab reduced HAE attacks by an average of 94.8% from baseline: from 1.84 attacks per month to 0.08 attacks over a period of 1 year, with the vast majority of patients being attack-free.
Lanadelumab was approved in the US in 2018 for patients with HAE aged 12 or more years, and it is currently available in more than 60 countries around the world.
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U.S. FDA approves Takeda’s TAKHZYRO® (lanadelumab-flyo) to prevent hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks in children 2 years of age and older. News release. Takeda; February 3, 2023.
