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Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Intramuscular Route)
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Description
Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human) is used to prevent hepatitis B.
Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human) may be used for the following patients:
- Sexual partners of persons with hepatitis B.
- Persons who may be exposed to the virus by means of blood, blood products, or human bites, such as health care workers, employees in medical facilities, patients and staff of live-in facilities and day-care programs for the developmentally disabled, morticians and embalmers, police and fire department personnel, and military personnel.
- Those who have household exposure to persons with acute hepatitis B and babies less than 12 months old whose caregiver tests positive for hepatitis B.
- Babies born to mothers who test positive for hepatitis B.
This medicine is available only from your doctor or other authorized health care professional.
Once a medicine has been approved for marketing for a certain use, experience may show that it is also useful for other medical problems. Although this use is not included in product labeling, hepatitis B immune globulin (human) is used to prevent infection by the hepatitis B virus in patients who have had liver transplants.
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