title: Hereditary angiodema: a current state-of-the-art review, VII: Canadian Hungarian 2007 International Consensus Algorithm for the Diagnosis, Therapy, and Management of Hereditary Angioedema.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We published the Canadian 2003 International Consensus Algorithm for the Diagnosis, Therapy, and Management of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE; C1 inhibitor [C1-INH] deficiency) in 2004.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To ensure that this consensus remains current.
  
  
  METHODS
  In collaboration with the Canadian Network of Rare Blood Disorder Organizations, we held the second Canadian Consensus discussion with our international colleagues in Toronto, Ontario, on February 3, 2006, and reviewed its content at the Fifth C1 Inhibitor Deficiency Workshop in Budapest on June 2, 2007. Papers were presented by international investigators, and this consensus algorithm approach resulted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This consensus algorithm outlines the approach recommended for the diagnosis, therapy, and management of HAE, which was agreed on by the authors of this report. This document is only a consensus algorithm approach and continues to require validation. As such, participants agreed to make this a living 2007 algorithm, a work in progress, and to review its content at future international HAE meetings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a paucity of double-blind, placebo-controlled trials on the treatment of HAE, making levels of evidence to support the algorithm less than optimal. Controlled trials currently under way will provide further insight into the management of HAE. As with our Canadian 2003 Consensus, this 2007 International Consensus Algorithm for the Diagnosis, Therapy, and Management of HAE was formed through the meeting and agreement of patient care professionals along with patient group representatives and individual patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Paediatrics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. tbowen@pol.net
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mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D054179:Angioedemas, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D002170:Canada; D003245:Consensus Statements as Topic; D018849:Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007391:International Cooperation