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A clinical assessment is crucial to determine the risk for morbidities and premature mortality in your patient with PNH1-4
- Monitoring of patients with small PNH clones is essential since clone size can expand rapidly and unpredictably over time.6
- In PNH, hemolysis as measured by LDH ≥1.5x ULN may increase the risk of comorbidities of an active disease process7
- Patients with PNH and hemolysis (LDH ≥1.5x ULN) are 4.8x more likely to experience premature mortality compared with the age- and sex-matched population8
Patients with PNH showing signs and symptoms of hemolysis are at an increased risk for TEs and premature mortality7
In PNH, hemolysis as measured by LDH ≥1.5x ULN may increase the risk of comorbidities of an active disease process7
— Patients with PNH and hemolysis (LDH ≥1.5x ULN) are 4.8x more likely to experience premature mortality compared with the age- and sex-matched population8
Elevated hemolysis alone, and in association with clinical symptoms, increases TE risk7
- Patients with LDH ≥1.5x ULN and 1 or more clinical symptoms such as abdominal pain and dyspnea had an increased risk of TE7
Patients are at risk for TE regardless of clone size7
- Even patients with smaller clone sizes can experience thrombosis, and there was no evidence of any association between clone size category and risk of experiencing TE (P=0.843)7
In PNH, fatigue and impaired quality of life (QoL) are independent of clone size9
- Even patients with clone size <10% experienced substantial impact on QoL9
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