Orkambi Treatment in 2 to 5 Year Old Children With CF

Orkambi is a novel approved therapy for use in people homozygous for the F508del mutation in the CFTR gene. It is a combination of lumacaftor (VX-809) and ivacaftor( VX-770) that addresses both the processing and gating defects of the F508del mutation. The small-molecule corrector lumacaftor corrects the F508del processing defect and increases epithelial delivery of CFTR protein1. Ivacaftor is a CFTR potentiator that increases the channel open probability in F508del-mutant CFTRs that undergo epithelial delivery in vitro and has an additive effect with lumacaftor on chloride transport (2,3,4,5).