Authors
Sabrina Paganoni, Suzanne Hendrix, Samuel P Dickson, Newman Knowlton, James D Berry, Michael A Elliott, Samuel Maiser, Chafic Karam, James B Caress, Margaret Ayo Owegi, Adam Quick, James Wymer, Stephen A Goutman, Daragh Heitzman, Terry D Heiman-Patterson, Carlayne Jackson, Colin Quinn, Jeffrey D Rothstein, Edward J Kasarskis, Jonathan Katz, Liberty Jenkins, Shafeeq S Ladha, Timothy M Miller, Stephen N Scelsa, Tuan H Vu, Christina Fournier, Kristin M Johnson, Andrea Swenson, Namita Goyal, Gary L Pattee, Suma Babu, Marianne Chase, Derek Dagostino, Meghan Hall, Gale Kittle, Mathew Eydinov, Joseph Ostrow, Lindsay Pothier, Rebecca Randall, Jeremy M Shefner, Alexander V Sherman, Eric Tustison, Prasha Vigneswaran, Hong Yu, Joshua Cohen, Justin Klee, Rudolph Tanzi, Walter Gilbert, Patrick Yeramian, Merit Cudkowicz
Publication date
2022/8/1
Journal
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
Volume
93
Issue
8
Pages
871-875
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Description
Background
Coformulated sodium phenylbutyrate/taurursodiol (PB/TURSO) was shown to prolong survival and slow functional decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Objective
Determine whether PB/TURSO prolonged tracheostomy/ventilation-free survival and/or reduced first hospitalisation in participants with ALS in the CENTAUR trial.
Methods
Adults with El Escorial Definite ALS ≤18 months from symptom onset were randomised to PB/ TURSO or placebo for 6 months. Those completing randomised treatment could enrol in an open-label extension (OLE) phase and receive PB/TURSO for ≤30 months. Times to the following individual or combined key events were compared in the originally randomised treatment groups over a period spanning trial start through July 2020 (longest postrandomisation follow-up, 35 months): death, tracheostomy, permanent assisted ventilation (PAV) and first hospitalisation …
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