Economic burden limiting proper healthcare delivery, management, and improvement of patient outcomes.

Although several new therapies to both treat acute hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks and provide prophylaxis for patients with recurrent episodes have been introduced in the past several years, HAE remains a disease with a substantial physical, psychosocial, and economic burden to both affected patients and society in general. Not all treatments work for all patients, and research is ongoing to improve HAE diagnosis and selection of therapy for individual patients to optimize outcomes. But the disease has a significant economic impact with high direct and indirect costs, and high charges related to the new therapies developed for patients to reduce symptoms and attack recurrence. Overall, effective management of HAE is often complicated by clinical and economic barriers to optimal patient outcomes that must be overcome to provide the best care possible and prevent future attacks and complications associated with this rare disease.