USA-based firm Baxter presented data on its Gammagard Liquid, that it says support further progress in efforts to make antibody therapy more convenient for patients with primary immunodeficiency, at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting in Washington DC. Data from a retrospective analysis of real-world use in the USA showed current administration uses significantly more immune globulin than intravenous dosing. The analysis PID patients intravenously administered immune globulins from Gammagard and 258 subjects on an approved subcutaneous therapy show the median dose typically given subcutaneously for those with PID is around 1.39 times the median dose given intravenously.
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