Home-based subcutaneous immunoglobulin versus hospital-based intravenous immunoglobulin in treatment of primary antibody deficiencies: Systematic review and meta analysis

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1180-1192

  Abolhassani, Hassan ^a   Sadaghiani, Mohammad Salehi ^a   Aghamohammadi, Asghar ^a   Ochs, Hans D ^b   Rezaei, Nima ^a,c,d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

efficacy; Immunoglobulin replacement therapy; intravenous; subcutaneous

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CONVALESCENCE; COST OF ILLNESS; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; HYPER IGM SYNDROME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RATE; INJECTION SITE REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ECONOMICS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; METHODOLOGY; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFUSIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84878233844     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: 15732592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10875-012-9720-1     Document Type: Article

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