Liver enzyme levels may rise again as corticosteroid doses are gradually reduced in people with hemophilia B treated with Hemgenix, a case report suggests. Elevated liver enzymes are a known side effect of the gene therapy that can signal liver inflammation or damage. Corticosteroids are used to treat…
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The email started with two words: “Good night.” I understood it right away. It’s what a mother writes when the house is finally quiet, but her mind isn’t. Her name is Deiralina Morillo, and she lives in the Dominican Republic. Two of her three children, both daughters, have factor…
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If I could change one thing about my parenting, I would have learned to manage my temper during my sons’ factor infusions. Julian and Caeleb are 10 years apart, but both live with hemophilia A and developed a fear of needles around age 6. My wife and I tried…
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Halloween is one of my daughter’s favorite holidays. She looks forward to creative costumes and makes drawings of pumpkins, ghosts, and bats. Here in the Philippines, people have different attitudes toward the occasion, but that hasn’t dampened her enthusiasm. As I write this, we have a Halloween display in our…
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By educating and empowering patients and their families, clinicians can help improve access to accurate diagnoses and care for women and girls affected by hemophilia. That’s the argument made by a pair of doctors in Belgium in a paper titled, “How I Identify and Diagnose Carriers of Hemophilia…
Becoming educated and informed about hemophilia is a good first step. Here you’ll find general information about the disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and causes.
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There is no cure for hemophilia yet, but here you can find more information about current therapeutic approaches, as well as experimental treatments that are in the pipeline.
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