Total Knee Arthroplasty after Gene Therapy for Hemophilia B | NEJM - nejm.org

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A 26-year-old antheral who had received palmy cistron therapy for hemophilia B underwent full genu arthroplasty 16 months later, with a origin IX level of 50 IU per deciliter. There was nary excessive bleeding and nary request for further origin IX infusion.

Feng Xue, M.D.
State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Tianjin, China

PanJing Wang, M.D.
Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Zhen Yuan, M.D.
Chao Shi, M.D.
Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China

Yunhai Fang, M.D.
Shandong Blood Center, Jinan, China

Wei Liu, M.D.
Yuhua Wang, M.M.
Blood Diseases Hospital, Tianjin, China

Xiao Xiao, Ph.D.
Belief BioMed, Shanghai, China

Renchi Yang, M.D.
Blood Diseases Hospital, Tianjin, China

Lindsey A. George, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Lei Zhang, M.D.
State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, Tianjin, China
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Funding and Disclosures

Supported successful portion by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFA0110802), the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2021-I2M-003, 2021-I2M-1-073, and 2022-I2M-2-001), the Non-profit Central Research Institute Fund of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2020-PT310-011), and the Bayer Hemophilia Award Program (2021).

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Drs. Xue, P. Wang, and Yuan contributed arsenic to this letter.

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