Caplacizumab Licensed For Use In Scotland

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Fantastic news! I can share with you as of 2pm today the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) have announced that they have accepted the medicine: Caplacizumab through an expedited approach to minimise delay in patient access following the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that Caplacizumab will be licensed for use in Scotland. Thank…

Different diseases but still linked – TTP and aHUS

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It is not unheard of for someone with atypical Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS) to have had an initial diagnosis of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (TTP).  There is no statistic for how many have been misdiagnosed, just anecdotal evidence popping up over the years. Such misdiagnosis is often discovered when a patient receiving a kidney transplant presents…