U.S. FDA APPROVES VYNDAQEL® AND VYNDAMAX™ FOR USE IN PATIENTS WITH TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOID CARDIOMYOPATHY, A RARE AND FATAL DISEASE
— FIRST AND ONLY MEDICINES APPROVED FOR PATIENTS WITH EITHER WILD-TYPE OR HEREDITARY TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOID CARDIOMYOPATHY —
Monday, May 6, 2019 – 6:45am EDT
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved both VYNDAQEL® (tafamidis meglumine) and VYNDAMAX™ (tafamidis) for the treatment of the cardiomyopathy of wild-type or hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (ATTR-CM) in adults to reduce cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular-related hospitalization. VYNDAQEL and VYNDAMAX are two oral formulations of the first-in-class transthyretin stabilizer tafamidis, and the first and only medicines approved by the FDA to treat ATTR-CM.
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