Table 4.

Food and Drug Administration approved drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of hereditary angioedema attacks[18,34,35,37,38,40]

Drug	FDA approved indication	Usual adult dose	Range
Cinryze	Prophylaxis	1000 units IV	Every 3rd or 4th day
Danazol	Prophylaxis	200 mg/d	100 mg every 3rd day to 600 mg/d
Berinert	Acute attacks	20 units/kg body weight IV	Per attack
Icatibant	Acute attacks	30 mg SQ	Per attack
Ecallantide	Acute attacks	30 mg SQ	Per attack

FDA: Food and Drug Administration.