Sentences with phrase «as haemophilia»

Unfortunately, haemophilia A, which is caused by factor VIII deficiency, is about four times as common as haemophilia B.

After decades of frustrations, firms believe there are now major opportunities for gene therapy in treating inherited conditions such as haemophilia.

Not exact matches

Men inherit one X and one Y chromosome (which encodes the gene for maleness), so they are more likely to express recessive traits from the X, such as colour blindness and haemophilia.

As these therapies emerge, dealing with haemophilia will become less troublesome (see below).

One barrier to haemophilia therapy is the tendency of factor VIII to prompt the body into producing anti-factor VIII antibodies, known as inhibitors.

Eloctate, for haemophilia A, was approved in June and is recommended for an initial infusion once every four days, with a physician adjusting that up to five days or down to three as appropriate.

We really now have the potential to transform care for people with haemophilia using a single treatment for people who at the moment must inject themselves as often as every other day.

The «transformational» results have particular significance as the first successful gene therapy trial for the haemophilia A.