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PRIMA Study Shows Treatment with Privigen? Improved Function in Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Data presented today from the Privigen Impact on Mobility and Autonomy (PRIMA) trial at the Peripheral Nerve Society Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium Meeting in Rotterdam, Netherlands, suggests that treatment with Privigen? [Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human), 10% Liquid], an intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), may lead to improvement in function in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).
PRIMA, a prospective, multicenter, open-label, single-arm study investigating the efficacy and safety of Privigen in previously IVIG-treated and untreated patients with CIDP achieved its primary efficacy endpoint, which was the percentage of patients responding--as measured by the Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment (INCAT) scale--at study completion compared to baseline. The overall response rate was 60.7 percent. The 25-week treatment period permitted the observation that a response to IVIG can occur late (i.e., after more than 6 weeks of therapy). This finding may encourage some treating physicians to continue IVIG therapy longer in their CIDP patients before assessing whether or not the therapy is working.
PRIMA Study Shows Treatment with Privigen? Improved Function in Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Data presented today from the Privigen Impact on Mobility and Autonomy (PRIMA) trial at the Peripheral Nerve Society Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium Meeting in Rotterdam, Netherlands, suggests that treatment with Privigen? [Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human), 10% Liquid], an intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), may lead to improvement in function in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).
PRIMA, a prospective, multicenter, open-label, single-arm study investigating the efficacy and safety of Privigen in previously IVIG-treated and untreated patients with CIDP achieved its primary efficacy endpoint, which was the percentage of patients responding--as measured by the Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment (INCAT) scale--at study completion compared to baseline. The overall response rate was 60.7 percent. The 25-week treatment period permitted the observation that a response to IVIG can occur late (i.e., after more than 6 weeks of therapy). This finding may encourage some treating physicians to continue IVIG therapy longer in their CIDP patients before assessing whether or not the therapy is working.
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