The first adult participant with hereditary angioedema (HAE) has been dosed in STOP-HAE, a Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of ADARx Pharmaceuticals’ investigational therapy ADX-324. Designed as a long-acting preventive treatment, ADX-324 aims to reduce the frequency of swelling attacks while requiring fewer injections. The…
A man in the U.S. developed nonallergic angioedema on his tongue after he ran out of his blood-pressure medication and took his spouse’s lisinopril, another medication used to lower blood pressure, for two weeks. The man had experienced a swelling episode from lisinopril (brand name Qbrelis, among others), an…
Biocryst Pharmaceuticals is preparing to acquire Astria Therapeutics, and with it navenibart, a still-experimental, long-acting prophylactic (preventive) treatment that could improve care for people with hereditary angioedema (HAE) by reducing how often patients need injections. Navenibart is now in Phase 3 clinical testing, after earlier data…
Haloperidol, an antipsychotic medication commonly used to treat schizophrenia and severe agitation, was behind a rare case of angioedema of the tongue — a sudden, potentially life-threatening swelling — for a man in Tunisia, as detailed a case report. Although angioedema can occur as an allergic reaction or as…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Andembry (garadacimab-gxii) to prevent swelling attacks caused by hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adults and adolescents, ages 12 and older, adding the U.S. to the countries where the medication is available. Developed by CSL Behring, it’s the only treatment…
The use of the antibody navenibart, being developed by Astria Therapeutics to prevent swelling episodes in hereditary angioedema (HAE), resulted in the sustained inhibition of kallikrein — an enzyme that’s overactive in HAE patients — in healthy volunteers in a clinical trial, supporting its…
Keeping symptoms of hereditary angioedema (HAE) under control is the most important factor contributing to a better quality of life, according to a study carried out by scientists reporting from India and noting severe limits on access to first-line medications there. “There is an urgent need for easy availability…
More than half of individuals admitted to an emergency department, or ED, for drug-induced nonallergic angioedema — with nearly all of these patients experiencing swelling as a side effect of medications known as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, or ACEIs — showed improvement, with most staying briefly and few returning…
Sebetralstat, an oral small molecule being developed by Kalvista Pharmaceuticals, provided adults and adolescents with hereditary angioedema (HAE) with early on-demand treatment for swelling attacks and offered fast symptom relief, even when swelling affected the larynx (voice box). That’s according to interim data from KONFIDENT-S (NCT05505916),…
An assay that measures C1 inhibitor (C1-INH) activity on a dried blood spot after a blood sample is blotted onto a piece of filter paper appears to work as well as a standard, color-based assay to diagnose hereditary angioedema (HAE) and is easier to handle, a study found. Dried…
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