[PAGID] Home IVIG

[Dewton Vasconcelos]

Dear Chris

We have only one patient on IVIg at home. His wife is a doctor and 
therefore we feel safe for the monitoring and follow-up of the infusion. 
I think that for patients who do not present untoward reactions for long 
time and receive always the same product we could prescribe IVIg at 
home  safely, but unfortunately we receive several brands of products 
with different compositions, enhancing the number of adverse reactions. 
here in our hospital we usually treat the patients in a day care clinic 
that functions well.
Unfortunately SCIg is not licensed nowadays in Brazil and this type of 
product could be very interesting in favoring to send the patients to 
receive immunoglobulin at home.

Best regards,

Dewton de Moraes Vasconcelos
University of São Paulo School of Medicine


Chris Seroogy escreveu:

> Dear Colleagues,

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> 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

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> Chris Seroogy, M.D.

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