Home therapy with intravenous human C1-inhibitor in children and adolescents with hereditary angioedema.

Abstract

As in adults, home therapy with pC1-INH is effective and safe in the treatment of HAE attacks in pediatric patients; a larger, randomized study should ideally confirm our findings before this approach can be considered the standard of care for pediatric patients.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Angioedemas, Hereditary
• Child
• Complement C1 Inactivator Proteins
• Female
• Home Care Services
• Humans
• Injections, Intravenous
• Male
• Retrospective Studies

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Authors

• Wolfhart Kreuz
• Eva Rusicke
• Inmaculada Martinez-Saguer
• Emel Aygören-Pürsün
• Christine Heller
• Thomas Klingebiel

Publication date

2012-01-06

Journal

Journal topics

• Blood Transfusion
• Hematology

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Release reference

Transfusion. 2012 Jan;52(1):100-7

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