Stroke patients treated with alteplase, a medication used to dissolve blood clots, are at an increased risk of developing angioedema, a retrospective study has found. Being female, using ACE or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and having high blood pressure were all identified as “significant risk factors for angioedema among alteplase-treated…
Rare connective tissue diseases are more common among people with hereditary angioedema (HAE) than in the general population, according to the results of a new Italian study the researchers say is the first to seek to better understand disease prevalence among HAE patients. Among the diseases investigated — which…
Orladeyo (berotralstat), an oral therapy designed to reduce or prevent hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks, is now available in Ireland. The Irish Health Services Executive (HSE) recommended Orladeyo as a prophylactic, or preventive, treatment for HAE in adults and adolescents, ages 12 and older. Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, the company marketing…
Astria Therapeutics is planning the launch of a Phase 3 clinical trial in early 2025 to test different dosing schedules of navenibart, its preventive therapy for hereditary angioedema (HAE). The goal, according to Astria, is to provide flexibility for patients, with different dosing options, should the treatment candidate…
DRI Healthcare Trust, an investment firm, has acquired rights to royalty interest in sebetralstat, an on-demand treatment for hereditary angioedema (HAE) that’s being considered for approval in several countries, including the U.S. For Kalvista Pharmaceuticals, the therapy’s developer, the deal could be worth more than $175 million,…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to review an application seeking the approval of donidalorsen as a preventive treatment for swelling attacks in adults and children, ages 12 and older, with hereditary angioedema (HAE). According to Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the company developing the therapy, the…
An investigational gene-editing therapy for hereditary angioedema (HAE) called P-KLKB1-101 showed it could safely work as intended in preclinical studies, according to recent data. The treatment, developed by Poseida Therapeutics, successfully edited the KLKB1 gene and lowered levels of the kallikrein enzyme across experiments in lab-grown human liver…
Initiating treatment with sebetralstat within a few minutes of the start of a hereditary angioedema (HAE) attack was associated with it resolving significantly faster than when treatment was delayed by more than two hours, according to new findings from the KONFIDENT Phase 3 trial. Sebetralstat also led to…
Most people with hereditary angioedema (HAE) who received treatment with a 50 mg dose of the gene-editing therapy NTLA-2002 in a Phase 2 clinical trial were free from swelling attacks over nearly four months, according to a new study. Compared with a placebo, the 50 mg dose led…
An 80-year-old man in Texas developed angioedema thought to be triggered by the antipsychotic therapy risperidone, according to a new case study highlighting a possible risk with the use of this medication. The researchers noted that “only 10 cases listing risperidone as the only probable causative agent for angioedema…
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