Alpha-1 proteinase inhibitors for the treatment of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: Safety, tolerability, and patient outcomes

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-151

  Chotirmall, Sanjay H ^a   Al Alawi, Mazen ^b   McEnery, Thomas ^b   McElvaney, Noel G ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Alpha 1; Augmentation; Deficiency; Emphysema; Replacement

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; PLACEBO;

AAT GENE; AEROSOL; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPNEA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FATIGUE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LIPOSOMAL DELIVERY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; SPIROMETRY; TREATMENT DURATION; URTICARIAL RASH; VOMITING;

EID: 84922068725     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S51474     Document Type: Article

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