IMR Press / CEOG / Volume 42 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.12891/ceog1845.2015

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Case Report
Successful pregnancy and breastfeeding in a woman with mucopolysaccharidosis type I while receiving laronidase enzyme replacement therapy
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1 Dipartimento di Tutela della Donna e della Vita Nascente, Pediatria; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome (Italy)
2 Laboratorio di Neonatologia, Dipartimento di Tutela della Donna e della Vita Nascente, Pediatria;
3 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome (Italy); 3Genzyme, a Sanofi company, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2015, 42(1), 108–113; https://doi.org/10.12891/ceog1845.2015
Published: 10 February 2015
Abstract
The authors describe the first mother-infant pair to complete an on-going, prospective, open-label, Phase 4 trial (ALID 01803, NCT00418821) determining the safety of laronidase enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in pregnant women with mucopolysaccharidosistype I (MPS I) and their breastfed infants. The mother, a 32-year-old with attenuated MPS I (Scheie syndrome), received laronidasefor three years and continued treatment throughout her second pregnancy and while lactating. A healthy 2.5 kg male wasdelivered by elective cesarean section at 37 weeks. He was breastfed for three months. No laronidase was detected in breast milk. Theinfant never developed anti-laronidase IgM antibodies, never had inhibitory antibody activity in a cellular uptake assay, and always hadnormal urinary glycosaminoglycan (GAG) levels. No drug-related adverse events were reported. At 2.5 years of age, the boy is healthywith normal growth and development. In this first prospectively monitored mother-infant pair, laronidase during pregnancy and breastfeedingwas uneventful.
Keywords
Mucopolysacccharidosis type I
Laronidase
Pregnancy
Breastfeeding
Scheie syndrome
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