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Convenient dosing lets you plan treatment around your life, instead of planning your life around treatment.
Hizentra offers adjustable dosing, so be sure to frequently update your doctor about how you're feeling so your doctor can personalize your treatment and identify the dose that works best for you.
You and your neurologist can optimize your Hizentra dosing schedule based on:
Your routine
How long infusions
take
How much medicine per
infusion
How many infusion
sites
Infusions with Hizentra usually take about 1–2 hours per week. Select an example patient to learn more.
James 45 years old | 210 lb (95 kg)*
Alice 80 years old | 165 lb (75 kg)*
Miguel 55 years old | 176 lb (80 kg)*
Allison 40 years old | 154 lb (70 kg)*
James is a software developer with a wife and teenage daughter. After hearing about the multiple systemic side effects (like headache and nausea) James experienced after every IVIg infusion and how they affected his work and family life, his doctor decided to put James on Hizentra. He finds time every weekend to relax at home and infuse his Hizentra.
Dose: 19 g/95mL
Rate of infusion: 40 mL/hr/site
Infusion sites: 2
Time per infusion: ~1 hour and 10 minutes
Alice is a retired engineer who leads a quiet and relaxed life. She was tired of nurses not finding her veins and didn't want a port put in, so she talked to her doctor and started Hizentra. She now infuses at home once a week with the assistance of her caregiver.
Dose: 15 g/75mL
Rate of infusion: 30mL/hr/site
Infusion sites: 2
Time per infusion: ~1 hour 15 minutes
Miguel is an artist and part-time teacher who required frequent IV infusions to manage his disease. His frequent trips to the IV clinic were also a hassle. So he asked his doctor about Hizentra. They decided self-infusing at home on his own schedule was right for him. More frequent infusions meant less volume per infusion, letting him infuse in just about an hour.
Dose: 16 g/80mL
Rate of infusion: 40mL/hr/site
Infusion sites: 1
Time per infusion: ~1 hour
Allison is a working mother with 3 young children. After talking with her doctor, she chose Hizentra so she could fit her infusions around her busy work and home schedule. Allison asked her doctor about appropriate places to infuse, and now she can decide where and when she self-infuses. She needs a dosing schedule that won't get in the way of work and taking care of her kids.
Dose: 14 g/70mL
Rate of Infusion: 45 mL/hr/site
Infusion sites: 2
Time per infusion: ~45 minutes
*Rate of infusion and number of infusion sites in these hypothetical case studies are based on recommended rate and volume per site of subsequent infusions.
Photos do not depict actual patients.
James
*Voice2Voice advocates are not healthcare professionals or medical experts. For medical questions, please contact your physician. Voice2Voice advocates are compensated by CSL Behring LLC. for their time and/or expenses.
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