Unmet medical need due to the high frequency of persistent anemia/hemolysis; immunochemotherapy is unsuccessful in at least 25% of cases because of treatment failure or toxicity; and small B-cell clone shows low proliferation activity and is difficult to target efficiently
Need for rapid acting therapy, especially in specific clinical settings, such as acute and severe exacerbations due to infections, major surgery, trauma, cardiac surgery
As of June 2021, there were six emerging treatments in trials, including Eculizumab, Bortezomib, Sutimlimab (BIVV009) in the CARDINAL and CADENZA trials, Pegcetacoplan (APL-2) and BIVV020 (both multiple and single IV doses)
The CADENCE Registry, a global patient registry launched in 2019, is an important tool in treating CAD and will provide perspective longitudinal data to advance understanding of patient demographics, clinical presentation and characteristics, co-morbidities and disease burden, patterns and use of CA
