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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 185, Issue 4, Pages 525-538Publisher
BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-21-0239
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The long-term safety and efficacy analyses of patients with acromegaly treated with pegvisomant from the ACROSTUDY demonstrate overall favorable benefit-to-risk profile and high efficacy of PEGV. IGF1 normalization rate improved over time, with fewer complications such as abnormal liver function and pituitary tumor growth.
Objective: To report the final long-term safety and efficacy analyses of patients with acromegaly treated with pegvisomant from the ACROSTUDY. Design: Global (15 countries), multicentre, non-interventional study (2004-2017). Methods: The complete ACROSTUDY cohort comprised patients with acromegaly, who were being treated with pegvisomant (PEGV) prior to the study or at enrolment. The main endpoints were long-term safety (comorbidities, adverse events (AEs), pituitary tumour volumes, liver tests) and efficacy (IGF1 changes). Results: Patients (n = 2221) were treated with PEGV for a median of 9.3 years (range, 0-20.8 years) and followed up for a median of 7.4 years (range, 0-13.9 years). Before PEGV, 96.3% had received other acromegaly treatments (surgery/ radiotherapy/medications). Before PEGV treatment, 87.2% of patients reported comorbidities. During ACROSTUDY, 5567 AEs were reported in 56.5% of patients and of these 613 were considered treatment-related (in 16.5% of patients) and led to drug withdrawal in 1.3%. Pituitary imaging showed a tumour size increase in 7.1% of patients; the majority (71.1%) reported no changes. Abnormal AST or ALT liver tests occurred in 3.2% of patients. IGF1 normalization rate improved over time, increasing from 11.4% at PEGV start to 53.7% at year 1, and reaching 75.4% at year 10 with the use of >= 30 mg PEGV/day in an increasing proportion of patients. Conclusion: This comprehensive review of the complete cohort in ACROSTUDY confirmed the overall favourable benefit-to-risk profile and high efficacy of PEGV as mono-and combination therapy in patients with an aggressive course/uncontrolled/active acromegaly requiring long-term medical therapy for control.
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