Reblozyl
luspatercept
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Overview
Reblozyl is a medicine used to treat anaemia (low red blood cell counts) in adults with the following blood disorders:
- Myelodysplastic syndromes, a group of conditions where too few blood cells are produced by the bone marrow. Reblozyl is used in patients who need regular blood transfusions and who have a very low to moderate risk of their condition developing into acute myeloid leukaemia (a blood cancer) or of dying. It is used in patients in whom another medicine, erythropoietin, is unsuitable or does not work.
- Beta thalassaemia, a genetic condition in which patients cannot make enough beta globin, a component of haemoglobin (the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen around the body).
These diseases are rare, and Reblozyl was designated an ‘orphan medicine’ (a medicine used in rare diseases). Further information on the orphan designations can be found on the European Medicines Agency’s website (myelodysplastic syndromes: 22 August 2014; beta thalassaemia: 29 July 2014).
The medicine contains the active substance luspatercept.
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Reblozyl : EPAR - Medicine overview (PDF/139.81 KB)
First published: 08/07/2020
Last updated: 20/03/2023
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Reblozyl : EPAR - Risk-management-plan summary (PDF/356.51 KB)
First published: 08/07/2020
Last updated: 20/03/2023
Authorisation details
Product details | |
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Name |
Reblozyl
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Agency product number |
EMEA/H/C/004444
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Active substance |
Luspatercept
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International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name |
luspatercept
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Therapeutic area (MeSH) |
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Anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code |
B03XA06
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Additional monitoring |
This medicine is under additional monitoring, meaning that it is monitored even more intensively than other medicines. For more information, see Medicines under additional monitoring. |
Orphan |
This medicine was designated an orphan medicine. This means that it was developed for use against a rare, life-threatening or chronically debilitating condition or, for economic reasons, it would be unlikely to have been developed without incentives. For more information, see Orphan designation. |
Publication details | |
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Marketing-authorisation holder |
Bristol Myers Squibb Pharma EEIG
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Revision |
5
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Date of issue of marketing authorisation valid throughout the European Union |
25/06/2020
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Contact address |
Plaza 254 |
Product information
24/08/2023 Reblozyl - EMEA/H/C/004444 - IB/0022
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- summary of product characteristics (annex I);
- manufacturing authorisation holder responsible for batch release (annex IIA);
- conditions of the marketing authorisation (annex IIB);
- labelling (annex IIIA);
- package leaflet (annex IIIB).
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Pharmacotherapeutic group
Therapeutic indication
Reblozyl is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with transfusion-dependent anaemia due to very low, low and intermediate-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with ring sideroblasts, who had an unsatisfactory response to or are ineligible for erythropoietin-based therapy (see section 5.1).
Reblozyl is indicated in adults for the treatment of anaemia associated with transfusion dependent and non transfusion dependent beta thalassaemia (see section 5.1).