Pregnancy Not Linked to Worse Disease in Women With HAE: Study

Women with hereditary angioedema (HAE) who have been pregnant multiple times did not experience outcomes of significant disease worsening during pregnancy, a study in Turkey found. A majority did report a greater frequency of HAE attacks during pregnancy, but this was not statistically significant, according to researchers. In patients…

Warning Symptoms May Foretell HAE Attacks, Study Finds

Warning symptoms, also called prodromes, may foretell where in the body and how intense an attack of hereditary angioedema (HAE) will be, a small study found. Using input from patients, researchers observed that the majority experienced a prodrome before an attack and that almost two-thirds were able to tell…

New Questionnaire Measures Patients’ View of Disease Control in Recurrent Angioedema

Researchers developed a questionnaire, called the Angioedema Control Test (AECT), that may be helpful in monitoring disease control and patient-reported outcomes among people with recurrent angioedema. The tool is described in the journal Allergy, in the study, “Development of the Angioedema Control Test (AECT) – A Patient…