Conditions: Pompe Disease Glycogen Storage Disease Type II
Keywords: Glycogenesis 2 Acid Maltase Deficiency
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 4
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy, clinical benefits and safety of a prophylactic immunomodulatory regimen given prior to first treatment with alglucosidase alfa (Myozyme®) in patients with infantile-onset Pompe disease.

The objectives were to assess the efficacy of a prophylactic immunomodulatory regimen given prior to first treatment with alglucosidase alfa, as assessed by anti-recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase (anti-rhGAA) antibody titers, and antibodies that inhibit the activity and/or uptake of alglucosidase alfa; to evaluate the clinical benefit as measured by overall survival, ventilator-free survival, left ventricular mass index (LVMI), gross motor function and development, disability index and the incidence of adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and clinical laboratory abnormalities.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Alglucosidase alfa (Myozyme®) 20 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) intravenous (IV) infusion every other week (qow) (or optionally 20 mg/kg IV infusion every week \[qw\]) beginning from Day 0 to a minimum of 18 months or if the patient was less than (\<) 6 months of age at the time of enrollment, until the patient was 2 years of age, along with methotrexate 0.4 mg/kg subcutaneously for 3 consecutive days qow beginning from Day 0 to Week 6 (9 doses) and rituximab 375 milligrams per square meter (mg/m\^2) (or 12.5 mg/kg for patients with body surface area less than or equal to 0.5 m\^2) IV infusion qw beginning from Day -1 to Week 4 (4 doses) as per local prescribing information. An additional 4-week cycle of rituximab (up to 4 additional doses) and 6-week cycle of methotrexate (up to 9 additional doses) may have been administered within the first 6 months of the study as per local prescribing information.

Interventions: intervention 1: Alglucosidase Alfa intervention 2: Methotrexate intervention 3: Rituximab
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Administered as IV infusion. intervention 2: Administered subcutaneously. intervention 3: Administered as IV infusion.

Protocol document: