In an infant with Barth syndrome and dilated cardiomyopathy, elamipretide was well tolerated without significant side effects.
In plain wordsIn one infant with Barth syndrome, elamipretide caused no significant side effects. One case cannot show safety in others.
- Peptide
- Elamipretide (SS-31)
- Outcome
- No significant changeTolerability of elamipretide
- Study
n = 1
- Outcome group
- Adverse events · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intravenous, then subcutaneous · from three weeks of age through transplantation, then continuedAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
he was treated with intravenous Elamipretide, a mitochondrially-targeted tetrapeptide interacting with cardiolipin, without significant side effects
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Elamipretide was well tolerated.
A full-term male infant with an anatomically normal heart presented postnatally with cardiogenic shock necessitating VA-ECMO within the second day of life.
WGS revealed a pathogenic c.703del (p.Ile235SerfsTer4) variant in the TAFAZZIN gene.