Oral Chaperone Therapy Migalastat for Treating Fabry Disease: Enzymatic Response and Serum Biomarker Changes After 1 Year

Abstract

Long‐term effects of migalastat therapy in clinical practice are currently unknown. We evaluated migalastat efficacy and biomarker changes in a prospective, single‐center study on 14 patients with Fabry disease (55 ± 14 years; 11 men). After 1 year of open‐label migalastat therapy, patients showed significant changes in alpha‐galactosidase‐A activity (0.06–0.2 nmol/minute/mg protein; P = 0.001), left ventricular myocardial mass index (137–130 g/m 2 ; P = 0.037), and serum creatinine (0.94–1.0 mg/ dL ; P = 0.021), accounting for deterioration in estimated glomerular filtration rate (87–78 mL/minute/1.73 m 2 ; P = 0.012). The enzymatic increase correlated with myocardial mass reduction ( r = −0.546; P = 0.044) but not with renal function ( r = −0.086; P = 0.770). Plasma globotriaosylsphingosine was reduced in therapy‐naive patients (10.9–6.0 ng/mL; P = 0.021) and stable (9.6–12.1 ng/mL; P = 0.607) in patients switched from prior enzyme‐replacement therapy. These first real‐world data show that migalastat substantially increases alpha‐galactosidase‐A activity, stabilizes related serum biomarkers, and improves cardiac integrity in male and female patients with amenable Fabry disease mutations.