Sankyo and American Regent, a Daiichi Sankyo Group company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved INJECTAFER (ferric carboxymaltose injection) for the treatment of iron deficiency in adult patients with heart failure categorized as New York Heart Association class II/III to improve exercise capacity.

“This new indication for INJECTAFER marks the first and only FDA approval of an intravenous iron replacement therapy for adult patients with heart failure, a progressive and chronic disease. Approximately 2.8 million U.S. adults are impacted by heart failure with iron deficiency or iron deficiency anemia, which can affect their daily lives and activities,”said Ravi Tayi, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer at American Regent.

“INJECTAFER is the most extensively studied intravenous iron and this latest approval continues to build on the effective and proven use of INJECTAFER for adult and pediatric patients with iron deficiency anemia, and now for adult patients with heart failure who have iron deficiency.”

INJECTAFER has been studied in more than 40 clinical trials that included over 8,800 patients worldwide.15 INJECTAFER has been approved in 86 countries since initial European Union approval in 2007 and is the most extensively studied IV iron.