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palivizumab (Synagis®)

 

Status: Medicine does not meet criteria for AWMSG assessment

Excluded from appraisal by AWMSG. See AWMSG criteria for appraising a medicine (PDF, 430Kb) for information.

Medicine details

Medicine name palivizumab (Synagis®)
Formulation 100 mg/ml solution for injection
Reference number 2895
Indication

Prevention of serious lower respiratory tract disease requiring hospitalisation caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children at high risk for RSV disease: children born at 35 weeks of gestation or less and less than 6 months of age at the onset of the RSV season; children less than 2 years of age and requiring treatment for bronchopulmonary dysplasia within the last 6 months; children less than 2 years of age and with haemodynamically significant congenital heart disease

Company AbbVie Ltd
BNF chapter Infections
Submission type N/A
Status Medicine does not meet criteria for AWMSG assessment
Date of issue 23/10/2015
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