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Filter by:Patients with severe hemophilia A can experience repeated bleeding into the same joint (ie, a target joint; most frequently in the ankle, knee, and elbow), which can contribute to hemophilic arthropathy and, over time, ultimately result in chronic pain, functional limitations, deformities, reduced joint of motion and decreased quality of life. Early use of prophylaxis is recommended following diagnosis of severe hemophilia A to maintain joint health and prevent joint destruction. Eloctate is produced using a human cell line and an addition of an Fc fusion protein to recombinant FVIII (rFVIIIFc) with prolonged half-life and was launched in Taiwan from Nov. 2018. The pivotal studies of rFVIIIFc show that patients maintained a low bleeding rate, with most experiencing a median annualized bleeding rate (ABR) of 0 and 97% of target joints were resolved across adult, adolescent, and pediatric subjects during 4 years of prophylaxis rFVIIIFc treatment. However, in Taiwan we are still lacking the real world treatment outcome data on rFVIIIFc, especially for the joint health evidence in Asian Hemophilia A patients. Therefore the objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of rFVIIIFc treatment on joint health over a long observational period of 36 month focused on physical and functional changes in hemophilia A patients.
Total joint replacement is an ideal procedure to treat end stage joint disease. Good post-op pain relief could accelerate patient recovery and rehabilitation, and decrease admission days and medical cost. Local injection of LevoBupivacaine is an effective method in post-operative pain control. The effectiveness of local analgesia was noticed clinically. However, thorough studies about the pharmacokinetics of LevoBupivacaine, maintenance of effect, influence of post-operative rehabilitation are not well studied in different way of injection. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and analyze the pharmacokinetics and effect of local Levobupivacaine injection in different ways, the amount of post-operative fentanyl requirement after local injection, time to first fentanyl request, pain score, immediate post-operative function, side effect of analgesic agents, and medical cost, and to improve the quality of total joint replacement post-operative care.