Sentences with phrase «treating haemophilia»

Drug company Baxter International, based in Deerfield, Illinois, sells recombinant clotting factors for treating haemophilia and also has its sights on TFPI.

The results from the first human trials for a gene therapy to treat haemophilia A have just been published.

Not exact matches

But many of the physicians who treat patients with haemophilia are not convinced.

Clotting - factor infusions treat symptoms of haemophilia, but gene therapy could provide a cure.

When treated with replacement coagulation proteins, the dog naturally develops antibodies, or inhibitors, against the therapy — a problem that is also seen in some 5 % of humans with haemophilia B.

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

In Madrid last week, Amit Nathwani of the Royal Free NHS Trust in London announced that six people treated for haemophilia using AAV in early 2011 are still producing the blood clotting factor they previously lacked.

About 30 % of people with haemophilia A develop inhibitors, and once they do, treating their bleeding becomes much more difficult.

The hunt is on for ways to diagnose and treat the joint problems that are now the main chronic problem in haemophilia

Replacing the clotting ability lacking in haemophilia has been the treatment since the 1840s, when attempts were made to treat people with the disease by transfusion with whole blood from people with normal clotting.

Professor Pasi continued: «Incredibly exciting is the potential for a significant change in how haemophilia is treated globally.

The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrate the therapy being used to treat 10 male haemophilia patients without significant side effects.