Angioedema

Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) most often affect young patients and have high impact on morbidity and mortality with a significant alteration in the quality of life of patients with professional, social and emotional repercussions. Beyond this burden, IMIDs share many common pathophysiological mechanisms and treatments, known as "targeted therapies". Despite progress in this field, much remains to be done in clinical, therapeutic and fundamental research to address the efficacy, resistance and side-effects of treatment. These similarities between IMIDs have led the FHU IMMINeNT to propose the creation of a prospective, multidisciplinary clinical-biological database (IMMINeNT cohort), associated to a biobank, of patients with IMIDs. The main objectives of this database will be to identify new prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers in order to develop new therapeutic targets and biomarkers, to identify prognostic factors and determinants related to the activity, severity and quality of life of patients with IMIDs as well as to the response and tolerance to treatment.

To assess the efficacy of prophylactic treatment with deucrictibant extended release (XR) tablet versus placebo in preventing angioedema attacks, and to also assess the efficacy of deucrictibant soft capsules as on-demand treatment versus placebo in achieving angioedema symptom relief during acute attacks.

use of lanadelumab in patients with acquired angioedema

Angioedema is a disease characterized by the appearance of self-limiting edema that last 1-5 days and affect the subcutaneous tissue and/or gastrointestinal and oropharyngeal mucosa. In this last location edema can be lethal causing asphyxia, in all other cases full recovery is complete. Attacks can appear as part of the syndrome urticaria angioedema and can be of allergic origin. But there is a group of non-allergic angioedema that occur without hives and can be either hereditary or acquired. These angioedema are identified in some cases on the basis of etiology, in others are identified by the mediator and an overall classification of these forms of angioedema was published in 2014 as a result of a consent conference organized by the proponents of this registry. Being these forms of angioedema rare, there are not significative case studies inclusive of a high number of patients. This registry aims to collect in a single place a high number of subjects with recurring angioedema and without urticaria.