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Changing Paradigm of Hemophilia Management: Extended Half-Life Factor Concentrates and Gene Therapy
15 Jan 2016
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Management of hemophilia has evolved significantly in the last century-from recognition of the causative mechanism in the 1950s to commercially available clotting factor concentrates in the 1960s. Availability of lyophilized concentrates in the 1970s set the stage for home-based therapy, followed by introduction of virally attenuated plasma-derived, and then recombinant factor concentrates in the 1980s and 1990s,...
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