Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, discusses monitoring HAE treatment effectiveness through follow-up visits, patient-reported outcomes, and ongoing need for on-demand therapy, which can signal when treatment adjustments are needed.
Transcript
First of all, we should be seeing them in follow-up, and we should be getting some patient-reported outcome measures with some of these validated symptom scores.
You know, if they’re not having any more attacks and not having to use any rescue therapy, that indicates that they’re doing pretty well. And we would continue on.
But if they’re on a preventive therapy and continue to have the use of on-demand therapy, that may indicate that treatment is not as effective. We need to make an adjustment.
