Disease index

spinal muscular atrophy

Rare disease · 2017–2025

12decisions
3medicines
10carried consumer input
1,363individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
risdiplam Treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in adults and children aged 2 years or older weighing 20 kg or more. The tablet formulation is being listed as an… Nov 2025 Recommended with restriction 1 individuals
risdiplam Treatment of pre-symptomatic patients with confirmed genetic diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who have an SMN2 gene copy number of three. Jul 2024 Recommended with restriction 1 individuals
onasemnogene abeparvovec Pre-symptomatic treatment of babies with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and 3 copies of the Survival Motor Neuron 2 (SMN2) gene. Jul 2023 Recommended input received Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia · Sydney Children Hospital Network
risdiplam Treatment of 5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in three populations: (i) adults aged ≥19 years with symptom onset prior to age 19 and no prior disease-modifying… Mar 2023 Recommended with restriction 22 individuals
onasemnogene abeparvovec Treatment of pre-symptomatic spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients with bi-allelic mutations in the SMN1 gene and 3 copies of the SMN2 gene, aged less than 9… Nov 2022 Not recommended 22 individuals Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia · National Network · Paediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research Network
risdiplam Treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Types 1, 2, 3a (in patients ≤18 years), Type 3b (in patients ≤18 years), and Types 1, 2, 3 (in patients >18 years). Mar 2021 Recommended with restriction 219 individuals
nusinersen Treatment of pre-symptomatic, infantile-onset and childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients with genetically confirmed SMN1 deletion or… Jul 2020 Recommended with restriction 11 individuals Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia · Rare Voices Australia
nusinersen Treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients with symptom onset prior to 19 years of age, including Types I, II, IIIa, and IIIb SMA. Nov 2020 Not recommended unclear
nusinersen Pre-symptomatic initiation of treatment of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) who have SMN1 deletion or mutation with up to 3 copies of the SMN2 gene… Jul 2019 Not recommended input received Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia · Rare Voices Australia
nusinersen Pre-symptomatic initiation of treatment of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) who have up to 3 copies of the survival-of-motor-neuron 2 (SMN2) gene… Jul 2019 Deferred input received Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia · Rare Voices Australia
nusinersen Treatment of paediatric patients with infantile-onset or childhood onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) with onset of symptoms prior to 3 years of age. Jul 2018 Recommended with restriction no section in document
nusinersen Treatment of infantile-onset (Type I) and childhood-onset (Types II and III) spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Nov 2017 Not recommended 1,087 individuals SMA Australia · Muscular Dystrophy Association

Who spoke

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Australia · Rare Voices Australia · SMA Australia · Muscular Dystrophy Association · National Network · Paediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research Network · Sydney Children Hospital Network

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 10 of 12 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.