Crysvita, referred to the welfare committee

a treatment for rickets for hypophosphatemia

50,000 people agree to the national petition for "health insurance coverage."

A petition for national consent calling for quick approval of the rapid use of "Crysvita," a treatment for hypophosphatemia, a rare disease, was recently referred to the National Assembly's Health and Welfare Committee with 50,000 consent.

 

Crysvita is a treatment for XLH hypophosphatemia rickets and osteomalacia supplied by Kyowa Kirin Korea in Korea.

 

XLH (X-Linked Hypophosphatemia, X chromosome dominant hypophosphatemia) is a genetic disease and has a characteristic of severely bending legs.

 

The prevalence of XLH is about one person per 20,000 to 60,000 people, and most of them are found after the disease has progressed considerably due to signs around the age of two.

 

Early detection of XLH is essential for future treatment and management of patients.

 

If you miss the timing of treatment, you may suffer from side effects such as limb deformity, growth delay, reduced height, increased risk of fracture, kidney calcification, and elevated parathyroid levels.

 

In severe cases, you may not be able to walk.

 

Kyowa Kirin Korea's Crysvita was approved by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in September 2020 as a treatment for XLH and osteomalacia.

 

However, it has not been eligible for salary for two years since the permission.

 

The petitioner, who introduced himself as the patient's mother, explained, "XLH chromosome-dominant hypophosphatemia is a disease that requires living in pain for the rest of your life because early detection is essential for the patient's future treatment and management.

 

She appealed, "In Korea, it is excluded from the standard of fewer than two years of survival threat or life expectancy, so treatment cannot be used even before the eyes." The petitioner appealed, saying, "The mother of a patient who is having a hard time every day because health insurance is not covered even before the treatment for hypophosphatemia rickets, which has been waiting for more than 20 years." She said, "Since health insurance is not covered, individuals have to pay hundreds of millions of won in treatment costs." Crysvita was approved by the FDA in April 2018, is used as a treatment for adults and children over 6 months, and has been approved for sale in major countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan.