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. 2011 Aug;36(8 Section 2):2–31.

TABLE 18.

Adverse Events Occurring in >5% of Subjects With Primary Immunodeficiency During a Privigen® Infusion or Within 72 Hours After the End of an Infusion, Irrespective of Causality (PIDD Extension Study)

Adverse Event* Subjects (%) [N=55] Infusions (%) [N=771]

Headache 18 (32.7) 56 (7.3)

Pain, all types 14 (25.5) 31 (4.0)
  Abdominal pain§ 3 (5.5) 4 (0.5)
  Chest pain 3 (5.5) 4 (0.5)
  Pharyngolaryngeal pain 3 (5.5) 4 (0.5)

Nausea 6 (10.9) 10 (1.3)

Pyrexia 4 (7.3) 9 (1.2)

Chills 3 (5.5) 7 (0.9)

Influenza-like illness 3 (5.5) 4 (0.5)

Note: The AE rates in this study cannot be compared directly with the rates in other IVIg studies, including the original pivotal study of Privigen®, because 1) the extension study used an enriched population, and 2) the selective use of higher infusion rates at the investigators’ discretion in a subset of subjects may have introduced bias.

*

Excluding infections.

Includes abdominal pain, abdominal pain upper, arthralgia, back pain, chest pain, fibromyalgia, injection-site pain, myalgia, pain, pain in extremity, painful respiration, pharyngolaryngeal pain, and toothache.

§

Also includes abdominal pain, upper.

Some subjects experienced more than one type of pain.

Source: Adapted from Privigen® Prescribing Information 2011.