In a come­back, Por­to­la scores FDA ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval for once-re­ject­ed An­dexxa

Some­how stay­ing on the good side of the FDA, Por­to­la $PT­LA has scored an elu­sive reg­u­la­to­ry win for their once-re­ject­ed drug an­dex­anet al­fa.

The an­ti-an­ti­co­ag­u­lant — to be mar­ket­ed as An­dexxa — won the OK via the ac­cel­er­at­ed ap­proval path­way, mean­ing that Por­to­la will have to run a post-mar­ket­ing tri­al to demon­strate an abil­i­ty to con­trol bleed­ing in pa­tients.  The ap­proval was based on da­ta from two Phase III stud­ies, con­duct­ed among healthy vol­un­teers, that showed An­dexxa could re­verse an­ti­co­ag­u­lant ac­tiv­i­ty of the Fac­tor Xa in­hibitors Xarel­to (ri­varox­a­ban) and Eliquis (apix­a­ban). The drug al­so comes with a black box warn­ing and is in­di­cat­ed for use when re­ver­sal of an­ti­co­ag­u­la­tion is need­ed due to life-threat­en­ing or un­con­trolled bleed­ing.

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