Hi I am new here and I have MSA. I have been searching for all the info I can find. No real drugs to even slow this. I have read B vitamins are helpful' Possible good news, recently a team from Vanderbilt University in the US released interim results from a small study of their drug ATH434 at 6 months.
43% of patients showed improvement on UMSARS activities of daily living scale
29% had stable or improved neurological symptoms
No safety issues
This is just a tiny open label trial, so cannot be considered as any sort of proof.
They have another trial running which is a larger double blind trial, complete in November on earlier stage MSA. Reporting results Jan next year. That is ATH434-201 Phase 2. That could be interesting because all the improvers in the open label study were early stage. Fingers crossed.
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i hope it did you some good. I am still early stage. These guys have been working with different metal chelators on neuro diseases for decades. In this case they did ATH434 animal studies on several neuro disease and MSA was a standout. That is why they went after MSA with the 201 (your study) first and why I am optimistic for success. The promising recent data reported from the 202 open label makes me very confident of some success, finally. But I have been wrong before
They just announced the 201 trial is complete. Now they have to lock the data and crunch the numbers with top line results due late Jan or early Feb. Their drug, ATH 434 is an iron chelator. Other stronger iron chelators have been trialed and failed. This drug is looking for the sweet spot, where it can remove labile(free) iron from neurons, but is not strong enough out compete the cells for the iron they need. Tests in primates and the small open label (no placebo to compare) suggest they are on the right track. The theory is that excess iron is what causes the alpha-synuclein to clump and cause the problem. This trial is in early stage <4 yrs patients. Fingers crossed.
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