Suitability Of Nitisinone In Alkaptonuria 1 (SONIA 1): an international, multicentre, randomised, open-label, no-treatment controlled, parallel-group, dose-response study to investigate the effect of once daily nitisinone on 24-h urinary homogentisic acid excretion in patients with alkaptonuria after 4 weeks of treatment

Lakshminarayan R Ranganath, Anna M Milan, Andrew T Hughes, John J Dutton, Richard Fitzgerald, Michael C Briggs, Helen Bygott, Eftychia E Psarelli, Trevor F Cox, James A Gallagher, Jonathan C Jarvis, Christa van Kan, Anthony K Hall, Dinny Laan, Birgitta Olsson, Johan Szamosi, Mattias Rudebeck, Torbjörn Kullenberg, Arvid Cronlund, Lennart SvenssonCarin Junestrand, Hana Ayoob, Oliver G Timmis, Nicolas Sireau, Kim-Hanh Le Quan Sang, Federica Genovese, Daniela Braconi, Annalisa Santucci, Martina Nemethova, Andrea Zatkova, Judith McCaffrey, Peter Christensen, Gordon Ross, Richard Imrich, Jozef Rovensky

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Abstract

Alkaptonuria (AKU) is a serious genetic disease characterised by premature spondyloarthropathy. Homogentisate-lowering therapy is being investigated for AKU. Nitisinone decreases homogentisic acid (HGA) in AKU but the dose-response relationship has not been previously studied.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)362-367
JournalAnnals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Volume75
Issue number2
Early online date4 Dec 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2016

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