Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4150140 Archives de Pédiatrie 2007 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

RésuméLe palivizumab (Synagis®) est un anticorps monoclonal humanisé anti-protéine F de fusion du virus respiratoire syncytial (VRS). Il a obtenu son AMM en France en 1999 pour la prévention des infections respiratoires graves à VRS, c'est-à-dire nécessitant une hospitalisation, chez les enfants nés ≤ 35 SA, d'âge ≤ 6 mois et les enfants avec dysplasie bronchopulmonaire de ≤ 2 ans, sous traitement dans les six derniers mois et, en 2003, pour les enfants de ≤ 2 ans atteints d'une cardiopathie congénitale avec retentissement hémodynamique. Son coût élevé conduit les Sociétés savantes française et étrangères à limiter ses indications aux enfants les plus à risque d'infection grave à VRS.

Palivizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody against the F glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). It has been licensed since 1999 in France for the prevention of serious lower respiratory-tract infection caused by RSV requiring hospitalization in children born at 35 weeks gestation or less and who are less than 6 months old at the onset of RSV season, or in children less than 2 years old who have received treatment for bronchopulmonary dysplasia within the last 6 months. Since 2003, it has been also licensed for children less than 2 years with hemodynamically significant heart disease. Its high cost leads french and foreign pediatric Societies to restrain its indications for children with the highest risk of severe illness.

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