{"id":304799,"date":"2024-05-17T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/clinicians-report-success-with-first-test-of-drug-in-a-patient-with-life-threatening-blood-clotting-disorder\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T19:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T19:36:20","slug":"clinicians-report-success-with-first-test-of-drug-in-a-patient-with-life-threatening-blood-clotting-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/clinicians-report-success-with-first-test-of-drug-in-a-patient-with-life-threatening-blood-clotting-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinicians report success with first test of drug in a patient with life-threatening blood clotting disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital used a new drug to save the life of a patient with immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP), a rare disorder characterized by uncontrolled clotting throughout the small blood vessels. The group describes the first clinical use of the drug for iTTP in the New England Journal of Medicine. &#8220;The drug is a genetically engineered version of the missing enzyme in iTTP, and we showed that it was able to reverse the disease process in a patient with an extremely severe form <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/clinicians-report-success-with-first-test-of-drug-in-a-patient-with-life-threatening-blood-clotting-disorder\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital used a new drug to save the life of a patient with immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP), a rare disorder characterized by uncontrolled clotting throughout the small blood vessels. The group describes the first clinical use of the drug for iTTP in the New England Journal <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/clinicians-report-success-with-first-test-of-drug-in-a-patient-with-life-threatening-blood-clotting-disorder\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}