[PAGID] Home IVIG

[Conley, Mary-Ellen]

About 80-90% of our patients get their gammaglobulin at home and over the last couple of years about a third of these have moved to SQ.  We see the patients twice a year if they are well, and push telephone contact for any clinical changes.

Mary Ellen




Mary Ellen Conley, MD
Department of Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
332 N. Lauderdale
Memphis, TN 38105-2794
FAX  901-495-3977
TEL  901-495-2576


-----Original Message-----
From: pagid-bounces at list.clinimmsoc.org [mailto:pagid-bounces at list.clinimmsoc.org] On Behalf Of Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:16 PM
To: pagid at list.clinimmsoc.org
Subject: Re: [PAGID] Home IVIG

about 70% of ours do. It is just fine, works great.



>Dear Colleagues,

>

>I would like to poll people on home IVIG use.  I am typically opposed

>to it and have found more recently that insurance companies are requesting it.

>During my training, this was never done.  Is there are paradigm shift

>in facilitating home IVIG that I am not aware of?  Thank you for your

>comments, Chris

>

>

>Chris Seroogy, M.D.

>

>Assistant Professor

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>Dept. of Pediatrics

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>Mail:  H4/474 CSC, Mailstop 4108

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>Shipping:  H4/431 CSC, Mailstop 4108

>

>600 Highland Ave.

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>Madison, WI  53792

>

>phone: 608- 263-2652

>

>fax: 608-265-0164



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Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles MD PhD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics  and Immunobiology Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1425 Madison Ave, New York 10029
phone 212 659 9268
fax  212 987 5593
Email:  charlotte.cunningham-rundles at mssm.edu