Dallas, TX - Prophylactic antibiotic therapy for dental procedures is unlikely to prevent many cases of infective endocarditis and should be restricted to patients who would be at highest risk from ...

Dr. Nigel Key and Dr. Anna Falanga join us for a conversation on the updated ASCO VTE prophylaxis and treatment in patients with cancer guideline. They discuss recent evidence assessing apixaban for ...

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) prophylaxis refers to preventive measures that a doctor may take to stop a recurrence of ARF. These measures involve administering antibiotics to prevent infection. ARF is ...

Methods We randomly assigned young boys with severe hemophilia A to regular infusions of recombinant factor VIII (prophylaxis) or to an enhanced episodic infusion schedule of at least three doses ...

Short-term prophylaxis (STP) is used to minimize the risk of a hereditary angioedema (HAE) attack in cases in which known HAE attack triggers cannot be avoided. This is most often the case with ...

Prophylactic treatment with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) significantly reduced the risk for serious infections by approximately 50% in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Once-monthly fitusiran prophylaxis improved outcomes compared with on-demand treatment for patients with severe ...

Prophylactic cardiac treatment in DMD patients is associated with a 54% lower hazard of death, highlighting its potential survival benefit. Only 27.7% of DMD patients received prophylactic cardiac ...

Valoctocogene roxaparvovec delivers a B-domain–deleted factor VIII coding sequence with an adeno-associated virus vector to prevent bleeding in persons with severe hemophilia A. The findings of a ...

The (ASH) and the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) released comprehensive clinical practice ...