Moving towards clinical trials for mitochondrial diseases.

ABSTRACT: Primary mitochondrial diseases represent some of the most common and severe inherited metabolic disorders, affecting ~1 in 4,300 live births. The clinical and molecular diversity typified by mitochondrial diseases has contributed to the lack of licensed disease-modifying therapies available. Management for the majority of patients is primarily supportive. The failure of clinical trials in mitochondrial diseases partly relates to the inefficacy of the compounds studied. However, it is also likely to be a consequence of the significant challenges faced by clinicians and researchers when designing trials for these disorders, which have historically been hampered by a lack of natural history data, biomarkers and outcome measures to detect a treatment effect. Encouragingly, over the past decade

SUBMITTER: Pitceathly RDS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8432143 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature