Showing posts with label intravenous immunoglobulin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intravenous immunoglobulin. Show all posts

15 Jul 2022

The “risky” business of thromboembolic events for patients with intravenous immunoglobulin treatment

Dr Mahima Kapoor is the first author on a study which shows higher
risk for patients who have suffered clotting events from a particular
treatment, intravenous immunoglobulin.

by Dr Loretta Piccenna, Department of Neuroscience

An important analysis using the UK Biobank published this month by researchers in the Neuromuscular group in the Department of Neuroscience has shown a three-fold higher risk of blood clots, or thromboembolic events (TEEs), in patients with a prior history of these events when they were treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) (1).

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