Concentrate for solution for infusion for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR amyloidosis)

Information on authorisation

Since hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR amyloidosis) is a rare disease, Onpattro has been authorised as an “orphan drug”. The term "orphan drug" refers to important medicines for rare diseases that meet specific requirements. Medicinal products of this kind benefit from simplified authorisation conditions in Switzerland.

Onpattro was authorised under Article 13 of the Therapeutic Products Act (TPA). This means that the medicinal product is already authorised in another country with comparable medicinal product control.

In this case, Swissmedic takes into consideration the results of checks carried out by the foreign regulatory agency, provided certain requirements are fulfilled. These involve checks on the quality, efficacy and safety of the medicinal product, and the extent to which the results can be accepted for Switzerland.

The consideration of the results of foreign authorisation procedures is intended to help ensure that medicines that are already authorised abroad can be made available to patients in Switzerland as quickly as possible.

Swissmedic accepted the assessment of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the EMA’s authorisation decision when making its own decision on whether to authorise Onpattro in Switzerland.

In Switzerland, Onpattro is not authorised for administration at home.

If Swissmedic does not carry out its own scientific assessment, Swissmedic refers to the Assessment Report of the reference authority in both the SwissPAR (Swiss Public Assessment Report) and the resulting Public Summary SwissPAR. Since no separate review, and therefore no separate SwissPAR exists, in the Public Summary SwissPAR for Onpattro we refer to the public short report issued by the EMA:

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^{This information is correct as at the date above. New information concerning the authorised medicinal product in question will not be incorporated into the Public Summary SwissPAR.}

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