PARAMUS, N.J., July 26, 2023 – Octapharma USA today announced that Balfaxar ® (prothrombin complex concentrate, human-lans; marketed in Europe and Canada as octaplex ®) has received U.S. Food and Drug ...
The 94.3% efficacy of the Octapharma product was just a shade ahead of the 94.2% measured in a comparative product, Kcentra. Results of a Phase III study (LEX-209) of the safety and efficacy of ...
RARITAN, N.J., July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen) announced today results of an open label, single-center, parallel group study showing that a type of ...
Approximately 15% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery experience excessive bleeding that leads to depletion of clotting factors. Transfusion of frozen plasma is the standard treatment for excessive ...
Treatment with four-factor prothrombin complex concentrate was superior to plasma for the urgent reversal of vitamin K antagonist-induced anticoagulation prior to surgery, according to phase 3b study ...
Thirteen patients with liver disease and an abnormal prothrombin time refractory to vitamin K therapy were studied (Tables 1 and 2). None of the patients were actively bleeding, and none had received ...
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